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From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress
Thomas Dunne Books
April 2007
On Sale: April 3, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 0312372523
EAN: 9780312372521
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In this inspiring and often humorous memoir, Charles Rangel,
the outspoken Democratic congressman from Harlem--now the
chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means
Committee--tells about his early years on Lenox Avenue,
being awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart for wounds
sustained in a horrific Korean War battle (the last bad day
of his life, he says), and his many years in Congress. A charming, natural storyteller, Rangel recalls growing up
in Harlem, where from the age of nine he always had at least
one job, including selling the legendary Adam Clayton
Powell's newspaper; his group of streetwise sophisticates
who called themselves Les Garçons; and his time in law
school--his decison to attend was made as much to win his
grandfather's approval as to establish a career. He recounts
as well his life in New York politics during the 1960s and
yhe grueling civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.
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