无上荣耀 : 赖斯回忆录 – No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington by Condoleezza Rice

《无上荣耀》是赖斯回顾担任美国国家安全顾问和国务卿的八年从政生涯的唯一亲笔回忆录，也是它首次在中国正式授权出版，对于任何一个希望了解二十一世纪国际政治的人来说，这都是一本必读之书。

这八年时间，是美国外交史和国际政治史上极为重要的八年。上任伊始，赖斯及布什政府其他要员即面临“9•11”恐怖袭击带来的严峻挑战。书中详细披露了“9•11”期间美国政府高层的秘闻，以及美国决定出兵阿富汗和发动伊拉克战争的绝密细节。2005年，赖斯出任国务卿，被赋予了更大的责任，成为朝鲜六方会谈、伊朗核危机、巴以和谈、印度和巴基斯坦争端、北约东扩、台海危机等国际热点事件背后举足轻重的策划者甚至主导者。在本书中，赖斯首次披露了她如何在幕后操纵，处理一个又一个重大危机，以维护美国的利益。

本书第一次让中国读者有机会走进决定国际局势的秘密谈判室，了解当今国际要闻背后的真相和细节。在赖斯流畅犀利而富有美国式幽默的笔下，读者还将近距离领略布什、普京、奥巴马、布莱尔、卡扎菲、沙龙、阿拉法特等世界各国领导人的风采和趣闻，并深切体会到美国所代表和追求的价值观与治国理念。

From one of the world’s most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government. In her position as America’s chief diplomat, Rice traveled almost continuously around the globe, seeking common ground among sometimes bitter enemies, forging agreement on divisive issues, and compiling a remarkable record of achievement.

A native of Birmingham, Alabama who overcame the racism of the Civil Rights era to become a brilliant academic and expert on foreign affairs, Rice distinguished herself as an advisor to George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign. Once Bush was elected, she served as his chief adviser on national-security issues—a job whose duties included harmonizing the relationship between the Secretaries of State and Defense. It was a role that deepened her bond with the President and ultimately made her one of his closest confidantes.

With the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Rice found herself at the center of the Administration’s intense efforts to keep America safe. Here, Rice describes the events of that harrowing day—and the tumultuous days after . No day was ever the same.

Additionally, Rice also reveals new details of the debates that led to the war in Afghanistan and then Iraq.

The eyes of the nation were once again focused on Rice in 2004 when she appeared before the 9-11 Commission to answer tough questions regarding the country’s preparedness for—and immediate response to—the 9-11 attacks. Her responses, it was generally conceded, would shape the nation’s perception of the Administration’s competence during the crisis. Rice conveys just how pressure-filled that appearance was and her surprised gratitude when, in succeeding days, she was broadly saluted for her performance.

From that point forward, Rice was aggressively sought after by the media and regarded by some as the Administration’s most effective champion.

In 2005 Rice was entrusted with even more responsibility when she was charged with helping to shape and carry forward the President’s foreign policy as Secretary of State. As such, she proved herself a deft crafter of tactics and negotiation aimed to contain or reduce the threat posed by America’s enemies. Here, she reveals the behind-the-scenes maneuvers that kept the world’s relationships with Iran, North Korea and Libya from collapsing into chaos. She also talks about her role as a crisis manager, showing that at any hour—and at a moment’s notice—she was willing to bring all parties to the bargaining table anywhere in the world.

No Higher Honor takes the reader into secret negotiating rooms where the fates of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Lebanon often hung in the balance, and it draws back the curtain on how frighteningly close all-out war loomed in clashes involving Pakistan-India and Russia-Georgia, and in East Africa.

Surprisingly candid in her appraisals of various Administration colleagues and the hundreds of foreign leaders with whom she dealt, Rice also offers here keen insight into how history actually proceeds. In No Higher Honor, she delivers a master class in statecraft—but always in a way that reveals her essential warmth and humility, and her deep reverence for the ideals on which America was founded.

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