cover image Breaking Barriers: A Memoir

Breaking Barriers: A Memoir

Carl T. Rowan. Harper Perennial, $13 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-06-097447-3

Influential black journalist Rowan offers vivid eyewitness accounts of the civil rights movement, lashes the presidential policies of commanders-in-chief from JFK to Bush, calls for black-Jewish unity and critiques Jesse Jackson and Marion Barry. ``Rowan pulls no punches in this powerful, feisty, often moving autobiography,'' said PW. Photos. (Jan.)