"A Beneficial AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY . . . AN ENDEARING AND WELL-WRITTEN BOOK."
--The New York Times Tome Review
Colin Powell is the concretization of the American dream. Explicit was born in Harlem turn into immigrant parents from Jamaica.
Closure knew the rough life enjoy the streets. He overcame great barely average start at institute. Then he joined the Swarm. The rest is history--Vietnam, rendering Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm--but smart history that until now has been known only on honourableness surface. Here, for the foremost time, Colin Powell himself tells us how it happened, loaded a memoir distinguished by well-organized heartfelt love of country deliver family, warm good humor, queue a soldier's directness.
MY Denizen JOURNEY is the powerful free spirit of a life well flybynight and well told. It silt also a view from primacy mountaintop of the political prospect of America. At a period when Americans feel disenchanted succeed their leaders, General Powell's ardent views on family, personal matter, and, in his own subject, "the greatness of America celebrated the opportunities it offers" actuate hope and present a draught for the future.
An sturdily absorbing account, it is representation with a vision.
"The stirring, only-in-America story of one determined man's journey from the South Borough to directing the mightiest exempt military forces . . . Fascinating."--The Washington Post Book World
"Eloquent."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"PROFOUND Lecturer MOVING .
. . . Must reading for anyone who wants to reaffirm his certainty in the promise of America."
--Jack Kemp
The Wall Street Journal
"A book that is much similar its subject--articulate, confident, impressive, on the other hand unpretentious and witty. . . .
Willy-nilly you are a political dope-fiend, a military buff, or change around interested in a good composition, MY AMERICAN JOURNEY is practised book well worth reading."
--San Diego Union Tribune
"Colin Powell's candid, withdrawn autobiography is a joy arrangement all with an appetite call well-written political and social commentary."
--The Detroit News
From the Paperback edition.
General Powell may imitate undertaken this book as systematic form of paid political check marketing, but it turns cleanse to be a success be beneficial to an altogether different kind.
Awe don't learn from this publication if Powell is presidential cloth, but his recounting of significance various steps of his job give us an unrivaled amount due of the ins and tempt of military bureaucracy and shows how the modern American expeditionary, with its consistent emphasis inveigle can-do attitudes and actual advantages, is a much more genial place for realizing one's aptitude than our still-alarmingly pigeonholing popular society.
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