The Tragedy of Colin Powell - How the Bush presidency destroyed him. By Fred Kaplan: "At times, Powell has taken his fate with resigned humor. Hendrik Hertzberg wrote in The New Yorker last year of a diplomatic soiree that Powell attended on the eve of war, at which a foreign diplomat recited a news account that Bush was sleeping like a baby. Powell reportedly replied, 'I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming.'"