Bringing his superlative skills as a journalist to bear on this most intriguing of subjects, Marcus Mabry chronicles the fascinating story of Condoleezza Rice's life so far, from her childhood in Alabama and Colorado to her discovery of international affairs at the knee of Madeleine Albright's father, Josef Korbel, to her role in taking America to war in Iraq.  Mabry answers the question of how history will judge her in a deeply nuanced portrait of a driven woman of many contradictions whose power was vast.

A veteran foreign correspondent and editor, Marcus Mabry is the winner of numerous journalism awards and is a former Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.  He was a guest on KNPR's State of Nevada on May 7, 2008.