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Article: My American Journey. (book reviews)
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- Insight on the News
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- November 13, 1995
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My American Journey (Random House, 643 pp) is a warm, funny, often gripping account of an extraordinary life. But it is much more than a chronicle of the life and career of retired Gen. Colin Powell, the popular strategist behind Operation Desert Storm and potential presidential candidate. In an age when candidates hire consultants to reduce their messages to fit bumper stickers, Powell may have produced the longest piece of campaign literature in American history.
Readers of contemporary autobiographies have a tough time knowing how much to believe. Self-portraits seldom are unflattering. I know Powell well. I've worked with him in the Pentagon and traveled tens of ...