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Colin Powell - Imperfect Patriot (Hardcover)
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Colin Powell - Imperfect Patriot (Hardcover)
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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 Powell's followership faltered at
times, however, while in Vietnam, during the Iran-Contra scandal,
and 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. Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot is the
fascinating story of Powell's professional life, and of what we can
learn from both his good and bad followership. The book is written
for a broad readership, and will be of special interest to readers
of military history, political biography, and leadership.
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