King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr by Wil Haygood - 1993-02

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1993-01-01. hardcover. Good. 6x1x9.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Houghton Mifflin, 1993. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1993. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1993T. hardcover. Good. 1.8000 9.1000 6.0000. Heavy foxing

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1993-02-01. Hardcover. GOOD/Very good. Excellent clean copy. A couple pages damaged at top from bookmarker.

Boston/NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1993. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Boston Globe reporter Haygood ( Two on the River ) weaves together interviews and research to create a nuanced yet vivid narrative about the crusading Harlem congressman who served in the House for 24 years and whose controversial behavior and womanizing often overshadowed his crucial contribution to the War on Poverty. Haygood astutely traces how the light-skinned Powell (1908-1972), who tried to pass as white when a Colgate student, later embraced his blackness and demanded acceptance in the white world. Mixing New York and national political history with Powell's rise as a Baptist minister and politician, Haygood adds deft cameos of characters like Hattie Dodson, Powell's devoted secretary, and Hazel Scott, the jazz star whose wedding to the divorced congressman was "the stuff of grand romance and intrigue." Expelled from Congress in 1966 for alleged misappropriations and… Read More

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company , 1993 In Black boards, with gold lettering on the spine. Slight color fading on bottom of rear end-paper, Otherwise good copy.

Houghton Mifflin. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 0395440947 . Spotting to top edge and inscription to front endpaper; otherwise tight and unmarked in lightly rubbed dsut jacket. ; 9.10 X 6 X 1.80 inches; 476 pages .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 476pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Fine in a fine dust jacket.