From the
New York Times review: "'My American Journey'...tells the up-by-the-Army-bootstraps 'story of a black kid of no early promise from an immigrant family of limited means who was raised in the South Bronx and somehow rose to become the National Security Adviser to the President of the United States and then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.' That "somehow" perfectly captures the coy tone of this book, which presents General Powell's brilliantly executed climb to political and military prominence with studied nonchalance....The self-portrait that emerges from this book is that of a man who discovered his sense of self in the Army, a man who found in the military the same sense of "organization, tradition, hierarchy, pageantry, purpose" that he loved as a child in church."
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by Colin Powell
From the New York Times review: "'My American Journey'...tells the up-by-the-Army-bootstraps 'story of a black kid of no early promise from an immigrant family of limited means who was raised in the South Bronx and somehow rose to become the National Security Adviser to the President of the United States and then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.' That "somehow" perfectly captures the coy tone of this book, which presents General Powell's brilliantly executed climb to political and military prominence with studied nonchalance....The self-portrait that emerges from this book is that of a man who discovered his sense of self in the Army, a man who found in the military the same sense of "organization, tradition, hierarchy, pageantry, purpose" that he loved as a child in church."
by John Piper