Salon.com posted an inter­est­ing review about Marcus Mabry’s new book, Twice As Good: Con­doleezza Rice and Her Path to Power. It’s an insight­ful analy­sis of how Mabry might have come to write such an unfla­ter­ing biog­ra­phy of Rice.

• Condi Rice never looks back

As far as Rice is con­cerned, there is just one prob­lem with Mabry. He is not only sophis­ti­cated and sym­pa­thetic but fair-​minded and highly scrupu­lous about the truth. Unfor­tu­nately, truth­ful­ness and fair­ness are not flat­ter­ing to his subject.

The book sounds like it’s pretty inter­est­ing. I’ve always thought that Rice was a fas­ci­nat­ing char­ac­ter, albeit ter­ri­bly fright­en­ing. I found this para­graph from the arti­cle par­tic­u­larly compelling:

Accord­ing to [Mabry’s] research, every boss or mentor through­out her career has been cer­tain that Condi agreed with him, despite the broad range of pol­i­tics and ide­olo­gies that they rep­re­sent. This remark­able con­for­mity amazed Mabry, who also learned that many of those same bosses and men­tors today wonder whether her pro­fessed views were ever sin­cere or always merely convenient.