In 1954, Condoleezza Rice was born in Birmingham, Alabama, a city that Martin Luther King called the "most segregated city in America" in 1963. Rice's middle-class, college-educated parents instilled in their only child a sense that she could do anything if she put her mind to it. Rice became an accomplished pianist, student, and ice skater before heading to college and graduate school at the University of Denver. She was the first female provost at Stanford University in California, the first black female national security advisor, and the first black female secretary of state. Condoleezza Rice, Updated Edition tells her life story, one of perseverance and the pursuit of excellence.