Colin Powell è stato un politico e generale americano in pensione. Ha servito come 65° Segretario di Stato degli Stati Uniti. I suoi ampi servizi pubblici includevano anche i ruoli di Consigliere per la Sicurezza Nazionale e Presidente dei Capi di Stato Maggiore congiunti. Powell era noto per il suo approccio pragmatico e la sua enfasi sulla diplomazia.
Colin Powell writes of his anxieties and difficulties as well as the triumphs that marked his rise to four-star US General, National Security Advisor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, mastermind of Desert Storm, and now the man many Americans would like to draft as President.
Colin Powell, one of America's most admired public figures, reveals the principles that have shaped his life and career in this inspiring and engrossing memoir.
Colin Powell is the Embodiment of the American Dream. HE was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from jamica. 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. Powell writes of the anxieties and missteps as well as the triumphs that marked his rise to a 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. Powell gives US behind-The-Scenes protraits of Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, of stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf, and many others. This is a Book of Book of political excitement and Disclosure, ist is also a view from the mountaintop of the political Landscape of America