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Article: My American Journey.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 6, 1995
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Mr. Bacevich is executive director of the Foreign Policy Institute of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.
AS THIS review appears, the return of Colin Powell to public life has taken on the trappings of a triumphal procession. In treatment accorded more typically to rock stars than to literary neophytes, the retired general has inspired something approaching a personality cult -- complete with coast-to-coast tour, fawning media coverage, and groupies who at every stop crowd sidewalks in the hope of obtaining an autograph or perhaps merely in order to bask in his reflected glory. My American Journey, the ostensible basis for ...