Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot

Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot

For the past three decades, Colin Powell has been among America's most trusted and admired leaders. This biography demonstrates that Powell's decades-long development as an exemplary subordinate is crucial to understanding his astonishing rise from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to the highest echelons of military and political power.

Once an aimless, ambitionless teenager who barely graduated from college, Powell became an extraordinarily effective and staunchly loyal subordinate to many powerful superiors who, in turn, helped to advance his career. By the time Powell became chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he had developed into the consummate followerâ€•motivated, competent, composed, honorable, and independent.Â

The quality of Powell's followership faltered at times, however, while in Vietnam, during the Iran-Contra scandal, and after he became George W. Bush's secretary of state. Powell proved a fallible patriot, and in the course of a long and distinguished career he made some grave and consequential errors in judgment. While those blunders do not erase the significance of his commendable achievements amid decades of public service, they are failures nonetheless.

Imperfect Patriot is the fascinating story of Powell's professional life, and of what we can learn from both his good and bad followership. The book is written for a broad readership, and will be of special interest to readers of military history, political biography, and leadership.
Country USA
Brand University of Notre Dame Press
Manufacturer University of Notre Dame Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2019-03-30
UnitCount 1
Format Download: Adobe Reader
EANs 9780268105099

Country	USA
Brand	University of Notre Dame Press
Manufacturer	University of Notre Dame Press
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2019-03-30
UnitCount	1
Format	Download: Adobe Reader
EANs	9780268105099

Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot

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