On the afternoon of February 27, Otis Pearson drove me to the White House for the Gang of Eight's daily military briefing. The heavy armorplated bulletproof Cadillac held the road with a reassuring hug, around the huge Pentagon parking ...
The former Secretary of State recalls his youth, his military service, and his rise to the heights of America's political and military elite.
Powell gives us behind-the-scenes portraits of Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, of Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf, and many others. This is a book of political excitement and disclosure, but it is much more.
The former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shares his vision and recounts his life's journey, from his childhood in the Bronx as the son of Jamaican immigrants, to his impressive military career. Reprint.
Born in a two-room house in rural Louisiana during the Jim Crow Era, Joe Walker shares the story of his life.
In his enlightening and very human memoir, General Colin Powell, one of the most prominent figures in American public life, celebrates not only the rise of a great man from obscurity, but, in the General's own words, "the greatness of ...
Traditional Chinese edition of My American Journey
MY AMERICAN JOURNEY is the powerful story of a life well lived and well told. It is also a view from the mountaintop of the political landscape of America.