Colin Powell : imperfect patriot

The Resource Colin Powell : imperfect patriot
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Colin Powell : imperfect patriot
Title remainder
imperfect patriot
Statement of responsibility
Jeffrey J. Matthews
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Language
eng
Summary
"For the past three decades, Colin Powell has been among America's most trusted and admired leaders. This biography demonstrates that Powell's decades-long development as an exemplary subordinate is crucial to understanding his astonishing rise from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to the highest echelons of military and political power. Once an aimless, ambitionless teenager who barely graduated from college, Powell became an extraordinarily effective and staunchly loyal subordinate to many powerful superiors who, in turn, helped to advance his career. By the time Powell became chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he had developed into the consummate follower--motivated, competent, composed, honorable, and independent. The quality of his followership faltered, however, after he became George W. Bush's secretary of state. Powell proved a fallible patriot, and in the course of a long and distinguished career he made some grave and consequential errors in judgment. While those blunders do not erase the significance of his commendable achievements amid decades of public service, they are failures nonetheless."--Provided by publisher
Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
  • 327.730092
  • B
Index
index present
LC call number
E840.5.P68
LC item number
M38 2019
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Target audience
adult

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