From 2001 through 2004, Rice served as the nation's first female National Security Advisor, a role that deepened her bond with President Bush and ultimately made her one of his closest confidantes. In 2005, she was confirmed as the 66th U.S. Secretary of State and entrusted with shaping and carrying forward the President's foreign policy. As America's chief diplomat, Rice travelled almost continuously around the globe seeking common ground among friends, allies and sometimes bitter enemies, forging international agreements on divisive issues, and compiling a remarkable record of achievement.
In No Higher Honour, Rice shares her unique perspective on the most consequential political, diplomatic, and security issues of the Bush administration. In her own words, she describes the harrowing terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and chronicles her experience of appearing before the 9/11 Commission, for which she was broadly saluted for her grace and forthrightness. She also reveals new details about the contentious debates in the lead-up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Offering keen insight into how history actually proceeds, No Higher Honour reveals the behind-the-scenes manoeuvres that kept the world's relationships with Iran, North Korea, and Libya from collapsing into chaos. The book also takes the reader into secret negotiating rooms where the fates of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Lebanon often hung in the balance, and draws back the curtain on how frighteningly close all-out war loomed in clashes involving India and Pakistan, Russia and Georgia, and in East Africa.
Surprisingly candid in her narrative of administration colleagues, as well as the hundreds of foreign leaders with whom she dealt including Tony Blair, Rice offers in No Higher Honour a master class in statecraft and diplomacy in a way that reveals her essential warmth and humility, and her deep reverence for the ideals on which America was founded. No Higher Honour will be, undoubtedly, an important contribution to the historical record of the United States.
In No Higher Honour, Rice shares her unique perspective on the most consequential political, diplomatic, and security issues of the Bush administration. In her own words, she describes the harrowing terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and chronicles her experience of appearing before the 9/11 Commission, for which she was broadly saluted for her grace and forthrightness. She also reveals new details about the contentious debates in the lead-up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Offering keen insight into how history actually proceeds, No Higher Honour reveals the behind-the-scenes manoeuvres that kept the world's relationships with Iran, North Korea, and Libya from collapsing into chaos. The book also takes the reader into secret negotiating rooms where the fates of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Lebanon often hung in the balance, and draws back the curtain on how frighteningly close all-out war loomed in clashes involving India and Pakistan, Russia and Georgia, and in East Africa.
Surprisingly candid in her narrative of administration colleagues, as well as the hundreds of foreign leaders with whom she dealt including Tony Blair, Rice offers in No Higher Honour a master class in statecraft and diplomacy in a way that reveals her essential warmth and humility, and her deep reverence for the ideals on which America was founded. No Higher Honour will be, undoubtedly, an important contribution to the historical record of the United States.