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

Author: Wil Haygood Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780060842413 0060842415

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. Similar books: Joe Biden by Jules Witcover Condi by Antonia Felix Balzac by Stefan Zweig Victor Hugo by Graham Robb Samuel Beckett by Anthony Cronin Aldous Huxley by Nicholas Murray Tony Hancock by John Fisher The Knox Brothers by Penelope Fitzgerald Dorothy Day by William Miller The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings Tom by Lyle Leverich The Lonely Hunter by Virginia Spencer Carr Gore Vidal by Fred Kaplan The Kindness of Strangers by Donald Spoto Anthony Trollope by Victoria Glendinning The Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard First Light by Geoffrey Wellum The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir Rebel Yell by S. C. Gwynne