Article: JOURNEY ACROSS AMERICA TO PROMOTE POWELL'S `AMERICAN JOURNEY'.(MAIN)

Retired Gen. Colin Powell will lay down a personal publicity barrage across the country this month to help sell the gigantic first printing of his memoir, ``My American Journey.''

Powell's book, written in collaboration with Joseph Persico, will hit stores on Sept. 15, priced at $25.95, Random House said Friday.

Excerpts of the book will appear in Time magazine as well.

The first printing is 950,000 copies, or nearly 300,000 more than six printings of House Speaker Newt Gingrich's best-selling ``To Renew America.''

Powell will start signing books in McLean, Cannot distribute vertically Va., Sept. 16 and keep ...

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