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 Powell's 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 America's most memorable dignitaries.
Info
ISBN: 9780060842413
Published Date: January 1, 2006
Publisher: Amistad Press
Language: English
Page Count: 476
Size: 8.94" l x 5.92" w x 1.52" h
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Subject
General