ISBN 978-1594203183 Subjects David Petraeus Publisher Penguin Group | Name All The | |
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Role Book by Paula Broadwell and Vernon Loeb | ||
Originally published January 24, 2012 | ||
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All In: The Education of General David Petraeus is the biography of David Petraeus, written by Paula Broadwell and Vernon Loeb. Released on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, it reached #33 on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2012.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin referred to it as a "majestic biography." Tom Brokaw described it as a "riveting insider's account." Foreign Policy magazine described it as a "best read of 2012." Other sources described the book as "hagiographic," with author Max Boot saying he would have liked to have seen "a more objective" portrait of Petraeus presented.
Broadwell-Petraeus affair
On November 9, 2012, Petraeus resigned as Director of the CIA after an FBI investigation showed that he and Broadwell had engaged in an extramarital affair, which some have claimed constituted a potential national security risk.