Before Barack Obama, Colin Powell, and Martin Luther King, Jr., there was Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
In this towering and definitive biography, acclaimed journalist Wil Haygood paints a vivid portrait of one of black America\'s most memorable dignitaries..
He was a man of the cloth and a civil rights leader, but Powell\'s reputation for flamboyance, arrogance, and womanizing made him his own worst enemy.
Civil Rights," he represented Harlem for twenty-four years in the House of Representatives.
An astute businessman known as "Mr. -- the most celebrated and controversial black politician of his generation.
Before Barack Obama, Colin Powell, and Martin Luther King, Jr., there was Adam Clayton Powell, Jr