Description
Before Barack Obama, Colin Powell, and Martin Luther King, Jr., there was Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. the most celebrated and controversial black politician of his generation. An astute businessman known as Mr. Civil Rights, he represented Harlem for twenty-four years in the House of Representatives. He was a man of the cloth and a civil rights leader, but Powells reputation for flamboyance, arrogance, and womanizing made him his own worst enemy. In this towering and definitive biography, acclaimed journalist Wil Haygood paints a vivid portrait of one of black Americas most memorable dignitaries.
Author: Wil Haygood
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: 02/07/2006
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.6lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780060842413
Language: English
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