Colin Powell
Subtitle: American power and intervention from Vietnam to Iraq
By: Christopher D. O'Sullivan.
Series: Biographies in American foreign policy Joseph A. Fry
Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780742551862; 9780742565357
Subjects: Powell, Colin L; United States. -- Army -- Biography; United States. -- Dept. of State -- Biography; Generals -- United States -- Biography; African American generals -- Biography; Statesmen -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: This exploration of Powell's career and character reveals several broad themes crucial to American foreign policy and yields insights into the evolution of American foreign and defense policy in the post-Vietnam, post-Cold War eras. This book explains Powell's diplomatic style and its place in the American foreign policy tradition and his involvement in the most important debates over foreign and defense policy during the past two decades.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The education of a soldier, 1937-1980; title: From the Pentagon to the White House, 1980-1987; title: National security advisor at the end of the Cold War, 1987-1989; title: Chairman of the joint chiefs, 1989-1993; title: The military and diplomacy after the Cold War; title: Secretary of state; title: Powell, Iraq, and the "fog of war".