...With the news this morning that former Secretary of State Colin Powell has died at the age of 84. He was a son of immigrants from Jamaica. He grew up in a working-class family in the South Bronx.

Since his selection as a White House Fellow in 1972, Colin Powell has served in top posts under three secretaries of defense and four presidents. He served in one foreign war and ran another, and has ...

Originally published in hardcover in 2009 as Colin Powell : American power and intervention from Vietnam to Iraq. Contents The education of a soldier, 1937-1980 -- From the Pentagon to the White House ...