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Condensing her adult memoir Extraordinary, Ordinary People, Rice is engaging and reasonably candid in this account of her life from childhood through January 2001, when she became George W. Bush's national security advisor. While Rice's most newsworthy years were yet to come, readers will still appreciate this honest (if not probing) self-appraisal, with a good balance of details from her childhood and career. Timeline. Glos.