My American Journey

by Powell, Colin; Persico, Joseph E.

• ISBN13: 9780783815879
• ISBN10: 0783815875
• Edition: Large
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-03-01
• Publisher: G K Hall & Co

Summary

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 - but a history that until now has been known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, he himself tells us how it happened, in a memoir distinguished by a heartfelt love of country and family, warm good humor, and a soldier's directness. He writes of the anxieties and missteps as well as the triumphs that marked his rise to four-star general, National Security Advisor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, mastermind of Desert Storm, and now the man the country would most like to draft as President just as it drafted General Eisenhower before him in 1952.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
The Early Years
Luther and Arie's Son	p. 3
A Soldier's Life for Me	p. 38
Courting Alma	p. 62
Soldiering
"It'll Take Half a Million Men to Succeed"	p. 77
Coming Home	p. 102
Back to Vietnam	p. 126
White House Fellow	p. 146
"Go, Gunfighter, Go!"	p. 173
The Graduate School of War	p. 198
The Washington Years
In the Carter Defense Department	p. 225
The Reaganites--and a Close Call	p. 246
The Phone Never Stops Ringing	p. 272
"Frank, You're Gonna Ruin My Career"	p. 305
National Security Advisor to the President	p. 339
The Chairmanship
One Last Command	p. 387
"Mr. Chairman, We've Got a Problem"	p. 401
When You've Lost Your Best Enemy	p. 422
A Line in the Sand	p. 446
Every War Must End	p. 493
Change of Command	p. 529
Mustering Out	p. 555
A Farewell to Arms	p. 576
Afterword	p. 597
Colin Powell's Rules	p. 603
Acknowledgments	p. 604
Index	p. 607
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