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Colin Powell : American power and intervention from Vietnam to Iraq / Christopher D. O'Sullivan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Sullivan, Christopher D.
- Series:
- Biographies in American foreign policy.
- Biographies in American foreign policy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Powell, Colin L.
- United States. Army--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Department of State--Biography.
- United States. Army.
- United States. Department of State.
- African American generals--Biography.
- African American generals.
- Generals--United States--Biography.
- Generals.
- Statesmen--United States--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 219 p. ) ill. ;
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2009.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Few figures in the past quarter-century have played a more significant role in American foreign policy than Colin Powell. He wielded power at the highest levels of the most important foreign policy bureaucracies: the Pentagon, the White House, the joint chiefs, and the state department. As national security advisor in the Ronald Reagan administration, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff under George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and secretary of state during George W. Bush's first term, he played a prominent role in four administrations, Republican and Democrat, spanning more than twenty years.
- Contents:
- The education of a soldier, 1937-1980
- From the Pentagon to the White House, 1980-1987
- National Security Adviser at the end of the Cold War, 1987-1989
- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, 1989-1993
- The military and diplomacy after the Cold War
- Secretary of State
- Powell, Iraq, and the "fog of war"
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-208) and index.
- Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-41907-5
- 9786612496752
- 0-7425-6535-1
- OCLC:
- 317505004
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