Sacred Honor: Colin Powell: The Inside Account of His Life and Triumphs

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From the Persian Gulf to Washington's corridors of power, General Colin Powell has been one of the most visible, respected, and popular military leaders of his time and a peerless role model for African-Americans. Yet, surprisingly the man behind the uniform has remained virtually unknown to the public. Now, on the eve of Powell's retirement from the armed forces, Sacred Honor presents the complete inside story of Colin Powell, from his early days in Harlem to his leadership of American troops in Operation Desert...
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From the Persian Gulf to Washington's corridors of power, General Colin Powell has been one of the most visible, respected, and popular military leaders of his time and a peerless role model for African-Americans. Yet, surprisingly the man behind the uniform has remained virtually unknown to the public. Now, on the eve of Powell's retirement from the armed forces, Sacred Honor presents the complete inside story of Colin Powell, from his early days in Harlem to his leadership of American troops in Operation Desert Storm to his involvement in Somalian relief efforts. It also takes a revealing look at Powell's future ambitions, including his possible political aspirations. A press aide to Colin Powell following the Gulf War, David Roth has been granted unique personal access to the general and his inner circle. Combining his own close-up perspective with extensive research, one-of-a-kind interviews with Powell's family and-colleagues - including Presidents Reagan and Bush - and reflections on Powell's speeches and writings, Roth gets behind Colin Powell's public persona in a way no previous biographer has. In addition to this unique biographical portrait, Sacred Honor provides an inspiring testament to the roles that courage, perseverance, and faith play in overcoming personal hardship. The son of Jamaican immigrants, Colin Powell grew up in the tenements of New York. But through determination and an unwavering sense of personal duty, he persevered in school and became an ROTC student at City College of New York. From there, he began to develop into the soldier that George Bush would one day name Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Bush's primary reason for the appointment: "Because of his character." Renowned for his bravery, goodwill, and unquestionable moral integrity, Colin Powell is both a model soldier and the embodiment of all that is good about America. In Sacred Honor, this larger-than-life figure steps out of the headlines and becomes a living, breath

An intimate portrait of the man who went from Harlem to the White House to the forefront of Operation Desert Storm. Based on extensive research, this insider's biography reveals the complete Colin Powell in ways no previous book has. 16 pages of color photos.

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Roth rather charmingly evokes Powell's precise manner in his discussion of the general's "Rules"--pithy sayings such as "Check small things" and "Avoid conservatism" that Powell types on three-by-five cards. It's also endearing that Powell drives old cars he works on himself and enjoys a poker night. Roth describes Powell's Jamaican parents, Harlem boyhood, college days, and courtship; he makes it clear how shrewd his military career has been. Essentially, that career has groomed Powell to be a policy-making, inside-the-beltway general--and an expert on international relations--rather than a field soldier. Even so, Powell twice punched his ticket in Vietnam, and Roth's account of his expertise against the Iraqi army ("First we're gonna cut it off, then we're gonna kill it") gets a full and convincing treatment. Roth takes the reader through the imbroglios with the Clinton Administration, insisting that Powell had discussed retiring this fall with President Bush and that the matter had nothing to do with Clinton's policies. Roth, who was Powell's press secretary during the Gulf War, is something of an aide-de-camp here, but any biography of Powell is likely to circulate well, and the chapters on Powell's deep reading of Thomas Jefferson and his views on the conduct of the Gulf War are valuable. Roth also speculates on Powell's presidential possibilities; in fact, in some ways this is a campaign biography for a soldier who worked closely with Caspar Weinberger, various Congressional committees, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush. In any case, Roth effectively portrays a fascinating man.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780310604808
  • Publisher: Zondervan
  • Publication date: 10/1/1993
  • Pages: 272

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