Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Political Biography of an American Dilemma
Charles V. Hamilton
(Author)
Description
This fascinating, authoritative biography traces the extraordinary rise and preipitous fall of Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the eccentric and enigmatic congressman from Harlem.Product Details
Price
$22.95
Publisher
Cooper Square Press
Publish Date
December 24, 2001
Pages
576
Dimensions
6.1 X 8.94 X 1.2 inches | 1.67 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780815411840
BISAC Categories:
Earn by promoting books
Earn money by sharing your favorite books through our Affiliate program.
Become an affiliate
About the Author
A professor at Columbia, Charles V. Hamilton's other books include The Bench and the Ballot and (with Stokley Carmichael) Black Power.
Reviews
Captures the full range of an exciting man.--The New York Times
A balanced and dynamic portrait of the controversial mid-century congressman from Harlem.-- "Publishers Weekly"
Blending scholarship and ironic detachment, an admirably balanced treatment of a politician who provoked anything but objectivity during his Marion Barry-like career.-- "Kirkus"
Captures the full range of an exciting man.-- "The New York Times"
Powell was a seminal figure, the first modern rogue civil rights leader, a maddening amalgam of morality and amorality, brilliance, and corruption. It is Hamilton's contention that Powell is a perfect lens through which to view the gap between America's human rights canon and its racial reality.... Hamilton has combed the congressman's papers and interviewed just about everyone still alive who was close to him.-- "New Republic"
Hamilton gives the reader a chance to live in Powells New York and, really. it would be anybody's kind of town.-- "Black Issues Book Review"
A balanced and dynamic portrait of the controversial mid-century congressman from Harlem.-- "Publishers Weekly"
Blending scholarship and ironic detachment, an admirably balanced treatment of a politician who provoked anything but objectivity during his Marion Barry-like career.-- "Kirkus"
Captures the full range of an exciting man.-- "The New York Times"
Powell was a seminal figure, the first modern rogue civil rights leader, a maddening amalgam of morality and amorality, brilliance, and corruption. It is Hamilton's contention that Powell is a perfect lens through which to view the gap between America's human rights canon and its racial reality.... Hamilton has combed the congressman's papers and interviewed just about everyone still alive who was close to him.-- "New Republic"
Hamilton gives the reader a chance to live in Powells New York and, really. it would be anybody's kind of town.-- "Black Issues Book Review"
