Colin Powell: Soldier/Statesman-Statesman-Soldier. - book reviews

American Visions, April-May, 1993 by Gary A. Puckrein

Colin Powell: Soldier/statesman-Statesman/Soldier by Howard Means (Donald I. Fine Inc. 1992. $23.00) - We have grown accustomed to seeing him every morning on the front pages of our newspapers, but how did Colin Powell, who spent his early years in the streets of the South Bronx, become the most talked-about military leader since World War II? This book, based on 120 interviews with him, his family and his colleagues, begins to shed light on how this son of Jamaican immigrants rose to the upper echelons of the military establishment.

it is a book about courage, determination and will.