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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A child of working-class Jamaican immigrants in the Bronx, Colin Powell rose from neighborhood store clerk to warehouse floor-mopper to the highest echelons of the U.S. government.

*Former four-star general and U.S. secretary of state Colin Powell has died from COVID-19 complications at age 84. “We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great ...

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 ...