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Colin Powell : imperfect patriot

Matthews, Jeffrey J., 1965- author

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\"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.

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Subject: Powell, Colin L. / United States. Army Officers Biography. / African American generals Biography. / Generals United States Biography. / Statesmen United States Biography. / Cabinet officers United States Biography. / Iraq War, 2003-2011 Causes. / Leadership United States. / Followership. / United States Politics and government 2001-2009.
• ISBN: 9780268105099, 026810509X, 9780268105105, 0268105103

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
E840.5.P68 M38 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE