My American Journey

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A hardcover first edition of My American Journey, written by General Colin L. Powell. The book features a glossy white paper jacket over its white hardcover. The fabric blue spine displays the book title, authors, and the Random House publisher name with logo, printed vertically in gold text. On the front cover in gold ink is the book’s title, underlined, with a star below it. There are no markings on the back cover. The jacket front features a color portrait of General Powell wearing eyeglasses and his four-star General Army Green Service uniform. The title is printed in large black-and-white text inside of a red-white-and-blue three-block across the bottom of General Powell’s photograph, and followed by large black text, “COLIN / POWELL / with Joseph E. Persico”. The spine of the jacket has the title, author, and the Random House publisher’s logo.

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