About the Book

Four Stars: Conversations on Life, Success, Leadership, Mentorship, Culture, and Diversity

IN THE SPIRIT of traditional oral history comes an honest and open dialogue from the largest gathering of diverse military leaders in American history. The first book in the Through the Eyes of Eagles™ literary series, Four Stars, is a poignant anthology that gives voice to exceptional leaders who have graced the history of the United States. Its story centers on 13 dynamic and culturally-diverse leaders of the United States military who have reached the General Officer level and have contributed directly to the vision and goals that affect the morale, welfare, security and safety of each man, woman, and child in America. Translated interviews reveal candid and thought-provoking accounts of their views, expressions, and experiences that provide answers and solutions to universal challenges.

Historical firsts include:

First Hispanic-American in modern times to reach the rank of four-star General Officer in the Navy
First Puerto Rican to reach the rank of four-star General Officer in the Armed Forces
First African-American four-star General Officers in the Army, Air Force, and Navy
First African-American to serve as Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
First African-American and only ethnically diverse leader to serve as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor following military service
First Polish immigrant to achieve the rank of four-star General Officer and serve as Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Candid and revealing conversations with Generals Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Larry R. Ellis, Daniel “Chappie” James, T. Joseph Lopez, Lester L. Lyles, Lloyd “Fig” Newton, Colin L. Powell, Bernard P. Randolph, J. Paul Reason, Horacio Rivero, Jr., Roscoe Robinson Jr., John Malchase David Shalikashvili, and Johnnie E. Wilson, are captured in this rich and captivating anthology. These leaders are the great grandsons of the American Revolution, Civil War, and post World War era. They are sons of segregation elements such as the Buffalo Soldiers, Harlem Hellfighters, Tuskegee Airmen, and Borinqueneers.

Four Stars grants exclusive access into the living rooms and boardrooms of some of the world’s profound leaders and is truly a MUST read!

General Daniel “Chappie” James

It was in 1945. That rebellion started at Selfridge, with our refusing to sit on a different side of the theater, and it climaxed at Freeman Field, Indiana, where 101 of us were arrested and were moved back to Fort Knox, Kentucky. They were trying just as hard to stop us from getting the attention of the media because they knew that their policies could not be supported under constitutional law. [But] we continued to press.

When we refused to stop protesting the segregated facilities at Selfridge, they loaded us on trains, except for those few of us who were going, [and] they moved us all back down South, with the idea, “Let’s get them back down South where people know how to handle them, and they know how they’d better act down there.”

We were sent to Godman Field, Kentucky and to Walterboro, South Carolina. It was almost criminal the way they did it. They….CLICK HERE TO ORDER

General Lloyd “Fig” Newton

I landed in Vietnam at this air base called Tonsunit. The night before they had a rocket attack that killed a group of Americans who had completed their one-year in-country and were on their way back home. I’m standing there looking at this gaping hole in this terminal where this rocket had gone through. And the question that came to my mind [was], What are you doing here? Little kid from South Carolina, from that little town in south—What are you doing here? It was a rather overwhelming kind of experience at that point.

I stayed in Vietnam for a year. I grew up and aged ten, fifteen, or twenty years in that one year, through the experiences that I went through and what I saw that went on in what I’d call a couple things—a third world country and a country at war. It became very clear to me at that point during this experience; we had some difficulties back in America. There’s no question about that. However, I made up my mind right then that it is by far the greatest country in the world no matter what problems it had. [In my mind], I was going to go back, and I was going exert every bit of energy I could to make it not only the greatest country in the world but a better country than it was before I left to go to Vietnam. CLICK HERE TO ORDER

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$20.95 / ISBN: 978-0-9785850-1-3
Approx: 325 pages; 6x9 paperback