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Article: From the Bronx to the Beltway
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 30, 1995
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This is two books for the price of one. One of them is an
autobiography in the Samuel Smiles tradition of self-help and
well-earned success, the story of a son of Jamaican immigrants who
grew up in the South Bronx, drifted into the Reserve Officer
Training Corps at college, and ended up generalissimo of Desert
Storm and Chairman of the joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest
military post in the US under the Commander-in-Chief, who is the
President.
Even the chairmanship, however, may not be the end of this
ascent. For this is also an essay in another well-known American
genre, the campaign biography. About a year before the presidential
election, would-be candidates like to publish an ...