Political Author Series with Marcus Mabry of Newsweek June 19, 2007

Discussing his new biography of Condoleezza Rice, "Twice as Good"

From The New Yorker:

President George W. Bush has said of Condoleezza Rice, "Whatever she says, its like talking to me." Mabry writes that many of Rices sponsors, from Brent Scowcroft to a Marxist professor, have felt the same affinity, each to be "left scratching his head as he saw Rice make a 180-degree turn away from the core beliefs he thought they shared." Mabry, who had Rices cooperation here, succeeds in giving coherence to her character, from her roots in segregated Birmingham--where her middle-class parents were both inspired and mortified by Martin Luther Kings radicalism--to her broken engagement to the 1975 N.F.L. Rookie of the Year and her bond with George Bush. On Iraq, Mabry has less to offer, in part, perhaps, because of his subjects detachment; her supreme self-confidence, he writes, has made it hard for her to recognize the disaster unfolding on her watch.

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