Author | Paula Broadwell, Vernon Loeb |
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Subject | David Petraeus |
Publisher | Penguin Press |
ISBN | 978-1594203183 |
All In: The Education of General David Petraeus is the biography of David Petraeus, written by co-authors Paula Broadwell and Vernon Loeb. [1] The books were released on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, it reached No. 33 on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2012. [2] [3]
Doris Kearns Goodwin referred to it as a "majestic biography." [3] Tom Brokaw described it as a "riveting insider's account." [3] Foreign Policy magazine described it as a "best read of 2012." [4] Other sources described the book as " hagiographic," [5] [6] with author Max Boot saying he would have liked to have seen "a more objective" portrait of Petraeus presented. [7]
On November 9, 2012, Petraeus resigned as Director of the CIA after an FBI investigation showed that he and Broadwell were engaged in an extramarital affair, which some have claimed constituted a potential national security risk due to the classified information Broadwell gained access to. [8]
The woman with whom Gen. David Petraeus was having an affair is Paula Broadwell, the author of a recent hagiographic book about him, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus.
The target of his affection was quickly identified as Paula Broadwell, the author of a recent hagiographic book about him, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus.