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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Colin Powell
    sub title: imperfect patriot
  name:
    name part: Matthews, Jeffrey J.
    name part: 1965-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: inu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 396 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: The military years. Obedient son (1937-1957) -- Dutiful soldier (1958-1969) -- Follower and commander (1970-1982) -- Loyalist (1983-1988) -- Chairman (1989-1993) -- Part II: The civilian years. Presidential icon (1993-2000) -- Leader, follower, odd man out (2001-2004) -- Adviser (2002-2003) -- Defender in chief (2003-2004) -- Epilogue.
  target audience: adult
  note: Jeffrey J. Matthews.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Powell, Colin L
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Army
    topic: Officers
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: African American generals
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Generals
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Statesmen
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Cabinet officers
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Iraq War, 2003-2011
    topic: Causes
  subject:
    topic: Leadership
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Followership
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 2001-2009
  classification: E840.5.P68 M38 2019
  classification: 327.730092 B
  identifier: 9780268105099
  identifier: 026810509X
  identifier: 0268105103
  identifier: 9780268105105
  identifier: 2018055514
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 181119
    record change date: 20190718165230.0
    record identifier: in00004078043