Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Emmett John Rice was a former governor of the Federal Reserve System, a Cornell University economics professor, expert in the monetary systems of developing countries and the father of the current Ambassador to the United Nations in the Cabinet of President Barack Obama, Susan E. Rice. His son, John Rice, received an M.B.A, from Harvard Business School, and is the founder of Management Leadership for Tomorrow. Rice traced his roots to the American South. He was born in Florence, South Carolina and was the son of Sue Pearl and the Rev. Ulysses Simpson Rice. His father died when Rice was 7. He attended segregated schools before his family moved to New York City when he was 16. Rice studied at the City College of New York, receiving a B.B.A. in 1941 and an M.B.A. in 1942 from City College of New York