John Garcia wrote:
Powell was known in the US during his tenure as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff before the Gulf War, as he was the first black general to rise to this position. During the war, he was all over the media, and became more widely known.Definitely widely known.
Way back in 1987, A&E's program Biography featured Powell in an installment called _Colin Powell: A Soldier's Campaign_. The video tape is still available for purchase at Amazon.com.
In 1995 and 1996, there were widespread calls for him to run for President; he was probably the only Republican of that time who could have defeated Clinton, because he would have gotten a very strong crossover vote from Democrats. That is all assuming he would run as a Republican, and there was some question about that as I recall.
Before he announced that he was not going to pursue the presidential nomination, he wrote an autobiography called _My American Journey: An Autobiography_ (listed on Amazon as "by Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (Contributor)")
Sometime early in 1996, _Sacred Honor: Colin Powell the Inside Account of His Life and Triumphs_ by David Roth was published.
And if I recall correctly, at some point during late 1995 or early 1996, he appeared on Oprah :-)
There have been at least two or three additional books since then that I've seen on the shelves, and that's without really looking for them.
So "widely known" is probably a bit of an understatement (Powell probably has better name-recognition than three or four recent presidential candidates I can think of...)
Reggie Bautista
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