For the past three decades, Colin Powell has been among America\'s most trusted and admired leaders.
Once an aimless, ambitionless teenager who barely graduated from college, Powell became an extraordinarily effective and staunchly loyal subord.
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.
For the past three decades, Colin Powell has been among America\'s most trusted and admired leaders