Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell
Karen DeYoung
Okt. 2006 · Penguin Random House Audio · Voorgelees deur Roscoe Orman
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Over the course of a lifetime of service to his country, Colin Powell became a national hero, a beacon of wise leadership and, according to polls, “the most trusted man in America.” From his humble origins as the son of Jamaican immigrants to the highest levels of government in four administrations, he helped guide the nation through some of its most heart-wrenching hours. Now, in the first full biography of one of the most admired men of our time, award-winning Washington Post journalist Karen DeYoung takes us from Powell’s Bronx childhood and meteoric rise through the military ranks to his formative roles in Washington’s corridors of power and his controversial tenure as secretary of state.
With dramatic new information about the inner workings of an administration locked in ideological combat, DeYoung makes clearer than ever before the decision-making process that took the nation to war and addresses the still-unanswered questions about Powell’s departure from his post shortly after the 2004 election. Drawing on interviews with U.S. and foreign sources as well as with Powell himself, and with unprecedented access to his personal and professional papers, Soldier is a revelatory portrait of an American icon: a man at once heroic and all-too-humanly fallible.
With dramatic new information about the inner workings of an administration locked in ideological combat, DeYoung makes clearer than ever before the decision-making process that took the nation to war and addresses the still-unanswered questions about Powell’s departure from his post shortly after the 2004 election. Drawing on interviews with U.S. and foreign sources as well as with Powell himself, and with unprecedented access to his personal and professional papers, Soldier is a revelatory portrait of an American icon: a man at once heroic and all-too-humanly fallible.
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Karen DeYoung has worked at the Washington Post since 1975. She has held a number of positions, including her current slot as associate editor. She also has served as assistant managing editor for national news, national editor, London bureau chief, foreign editor, and Latin America bureau chief. She has won a number of awards, including the 2003 Edward Weintal Award for Diplomatic Reporting, Sigma Delta Chi awards for investigative reporting and foreign reporting, and a Pulitzer Prize she shared with several Washington Post colleagues for national coverage of the war on terrorism. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and their two children.
Roscoe Orman is an American actor best known for his role as Gordon Robinson, a human character on the children’s TV series Sesame Street. He is also an accomplished stage actor and has appeared in several productions at the Public Theater, in the Broadway production of August Wilson’s Fences, and in The Sirens at the Manhattan Theatre Club, among others. Orman's narrating credits include Karen DeYoung’s Soldier and Gary M. Pomerantz’s Wilt.
Roscoe Orman is an American actor best known for his role as Gordon Robinson, a human character on the children’s TV series Sesame Street. He is also an accomplished stage actor and has appeared in several productions at the Public Theater, in the Broadway production of August Wilson’s Fences, and in The Sirens at the Manhattan Theatre Club, among others. Orman's narrating credits include Karen DeYoung’s Soldier and Gary M. Pomerantz’s Wilt.
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