Rodale Buys Condoleezza Rice Biography

Posted on March 4, 2005

Rodale Executive Editor Leigh Haber has acquired North American rights to an important new biography of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice by Newsweek Senior Editor and Chief of Correspondents Marcus Mabry. The deal was negotiated with literary agent Charlotte Sheedy. The author is expected to complete the manuscript in 18 months, and the book will be published soon thereafter. The biography is to be titled Twice as Good: The Souls of Condoleezza Rice. In an effort to understand Rice's historic ascension to Secretary of State, her politics and her policies -- and her chances of reaching an even higher office -- Mabry will look to her childhood in Alabama as well as her terms as Provost at Stanford and as National Security Advisor in the Bush Administration. Mabry is an African American who shares Rice's status as a former fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; and, coincidentally, both concentrated their studies at Stanford on the Soviet Union.