TY  - BOOK
AU  - Matthews,Jeffrey J.
TI  - Colin Powell: imperfect patriot 
SN  - 0268105111
AV  - E840.5.P68 
U1  - 327.730092B 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Notre Dame, Indiana
PB  - University of Notre Dame Press
KW  - Powell, Colin L.
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Officers
KW  - Biography
KW  - fast
KW  - Iraq War (2003-2011)
KW  - African American generals
KW  - Generals
KW  - Statesmen
KW  - Cabinet officers
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - Causes
KW  - Leadership
KW  - Followership
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - War
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
KW  - 2001-2009
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1. The military years -- Obedient son (1937/1957) -- Dutiful soldier (1958/1969) -- Follower and commander (1970/1982) -- Loyalist (1983/1988) -- Chairman (1989/1993) -- The civilian years -- Part 2. Presidential icon (1993/2000) -- Leader, follower, odd man out (2001/2004) -- Adviser (2002/2003) -- Defender in chief (2003/2004)
N2  - "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
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