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King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
by Wil Haygood

    Publication Date: Feb 07, 2006
    List Price: $16.99
    Format: Paperback, 528 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780060842413
    Imprint: Harper Paperbacks
    Publisher: HarperCollins
    Parent Company: News Corp

    Paperback 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.



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