My American Journey
by Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico
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Author: Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. PersicoEdition: Hardcover
Audio: German (Unknown); German (Published)
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Published: 1995-09-09
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 656
Publisher: Random House
Summary of My American Journey
The former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recalls his youth in the South Bronx, his military service in Germany and Korea, his experiences with discrimination, his tours in Vietnam, and his rise to the heights of America's political and military elite. 500,000 first printing. First serial, Time. Tour.General Powell may have undertaken this book as a form of paid political test marketing, but it turns out to be a success of an altogether different kind. We don't learn from this book if Powell is presidential material, but his recounting of the various steps of his career give us an unrivaled view of the ins and outs of military bureaucracy and shows how the modern American military, with its consistent emphasis on can-do attitudes and actual results, is a much more congenial place for realizing one's talents than our still-alarmingly pigeonholing general society.
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