No Higher Honour

Condoleezza Rice

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9780857208088
• eBook ISBN: 9780857208095

From one of the world's most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, who overcame the racism of the Civil Rights era to become a brilliant academic and expert on foreign affairs, Rice distinguished herself as an advisor to George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign. Once Bush was elected, she served as his chief adviser on national-security issues - a job whose duties included harmonizing the relationship between the Secretaries of State and Defence. It was a role that deepened her bond with the President and ultimately made her one of his closest confidantes. With the 11 September 2001, terrorist attacks, Rice found herself at the centre of the Administration's intense efforts to keep America safe. Here, Rice describes the events of that harrowing day - and the tumultuous days after. No day was ever the same. Surprisingly candid in her appraisals of various Administration colleagues and the hundreds of foreign leaders with whom she dealt, Rice also offers her keen insight into how history actually proceeds. In No Higher Honour, she deliversa master class in statecraft -- but always in a way that reveals her essential warmth and humility, and her deep reverence for the ideals on which America was founded.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Also by Condoleezza Rice
• Copyright page
• Dedication page
• Contents
• Prologue
• Introduction
• 1 Before the Crack in Time
• 2 Honest Broker
• 3 Policy Begins
• 4 The Middle East
• 5 Vladimir Putin
• 6 “The United States Is Under Attack”
• 7 War Planning Begins
• 8 The War on Terror and the Home Front
• 9 Trouble in Nuclear South Asia
• 10 The Two-State Solution
• 11 The World’s Most Dangerous Weapons
• 12 Saddam Again
• 13 Confronting the International Community with a Choice
• 14 48 Hours
• 15 Bush the African
• 16 New Challenges in Iraq
• 17 2004
• 18 “Iraqis Need to Govern Themselves”
• 19 Another Step Toward a Palestinian State
• 20 Four More Years
• 21 Secretary of State
• 22 Promoting America’s Interests and Values Abroad
• 23 High Mountains and Dirt
• 24 The Color Revolutions Multiply
• 25 Baghdad and Cairo
• 26 A Heartbreaking Place Called Darfur
• 27 Katrina
• 28 Bringing Back the All-Nighter
• 29 Can Anything Else Go Wrong?
• 30 Transformational Diplomacy
• 31 Building a New Relationship with India
• 32 Democracy in Latin America and Beyond
• 33 A Change of Leadership in Iraq
• 34 Shifting Course on Iran
• 35 The Middle East Plunges into War
• 36 Revising the Framework for the War on Terror
• 37 Iraq Spirals Downward
• 38 An Explosion in Asia and a Challenge for U.S.-China Relations
• 39 Playing the Last Card
• 40 A Diplomatic Surge
• 41 A New Approach to Latin America
• 42 Improving the Daily Lives of Palestinians
• 43 Iraq and the Home Front
• 44 The Road to Annapolis
• 45 Emergency Rule
• 46 Final-Status Talks Begin
• 47 A Final Year
• 48 It Seems Like Yesterday—It Seems Like Forever
• 49 Whither China?
• 50 Olmert Makes an Offer
• 51 Completing the Task of Building a Europe Whole, Free, and at Peace
• 52 War Breaks Out in Georgia
• 53 Cementing Key Relationships with Iraq and India
• 54 He Lives in His Own Head
• 55 One Last Chance for North Korea
• 56 The Financial Crisis of 2008
• 57 Mumbai
• 58 One Last Chance for a Palestinian State
• Epilogue
• Note on Sources
• Acknowledgments
• Index
• List of Plates