New York, February 24: Condoleezza Rice has struck a deal with Crown Publishers to give the lowdown on her story in print. The deal is reported to be worth at least $2.5 million.
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The former secretary of state has agreed to a three-book deal with the publishers, and will soon get busy penning down the first memoir regarding her experience of eight years under former U.S. President George W. Bush, as national security adviser and, later, as secretary of state.
"Rice will combine candid narrative and acute analysis to tell the story of her time in the White House and as America's top diplomat, and her role in protecting American security and shaping foreign policy during the extraordinary period from 2001-2009," said Crown, in a statement issued on Sunday.
The book is expected to hit the shelves in the autumn of 2011.
Rice, 54, will follow it up with a pair of books about her personal life, revealing facts about her upbringing in segregated Birmingham, Alabama and the adversities she encountered on her way to becoming the first black female secretary of state in U.S. history.
These books will describe her "upbringing in the context of the extraordinary efforts made by her parents and other people in the community to raise children against a backdrop of fading Jim Crow laws and emergent civil rights initiatives."
The publishers will also roll out a young-adult edition of the family memoir.
The ex-provost at Stanford University had invited huge criticism for being unjustifiably devoted to the president and agreeing on some of his widely condemned policies, including the Iraq War. However, she is still considered more pleasant than Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and other administration officials.
Crown, a division of Random House Inc., is the same agency that had also published then-Sen. Barack Obama's “The Audacity of Hope”.
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