Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | DeYoung, Karen |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 11/6/2007 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The definitive biography of Colin Powell, from his Bronx childhood to his militarycareer to his controversial tenure as secretary of state, with an updated afterword detailinghis life after the Bush White House.
Over the course of a lifetime of service tohis country, Colin Powell became a national hero, a beacon of wise leadership andone of the most trusted political figures in America. In Soldier, the award-winning Washington Post editor Karen DeYoung takes us from Powell’s humble roots as the sonof Jamaican immigrants to his meteoric rise through the military ranks during theCold War and Desert Storm to his agonizing deliberations over whether to run forpresident.
Culminating in his stint as Secretary of State in the Bush Administrationand his role in making the case for war with Iraq, this is a sympathetic but objectiveportrait of a great but fallible man.
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