King of the Cats

<p>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.</p>