My American Journey
 

My American Journey

by Colin Powell, Joseph E. Persico

"A GREAT AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY . . . AN ENDEARING AND WELL-WRITTEN BOOK."
--The New York Times Book Review
Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history--Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert... (read more)

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Tope O
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Excellent book. Recommended to me by my section sergeant when it first came out, but I didn't get around to reading it until almost a decade later. A great look (for me) inside some of the inner workings of the White House and American foreign policy.

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