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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Haygood, Wil
Published: 02/07/2006
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780060842413
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d