organized and sign up to get involved yourself at us.worldbooknight.org. i mention this this evening because the deadline to sign up is tonight. so there is still time after this event. now a word about our guests this evening. paula broadwell and vernon loeb and their new book, all in: the education of general david petraeus. general petraeus has become a prominent world war general since world war ii, and while he has already been a subject of several books, paula was given unusual access to him and has brought his story of to date. as paula writes early in the book, one of petraeus important mentors general jack alvan talked to him about the concept of what galvin called the big m which stood for individual mystique ornithology. the idea, as galvin, explained, is the troops need to be able to make their commanders bigger than they are coming to magnify them. patton had his pistols and grenades, grant, his cigars. petraeus stood out as the epitome of the soldier scholar
there s this myth, always has been, that he established his prize for peace out of guilt over his invention of dynamite. and i think i say in my book it s hard to know exactly what s in a man s head and heart, but this seems not to be true. it seems he was quite proud of his achievements in the areas of explosives. peace, they say. sunday night at 9 eastern and pacific on booktv. every weekend on c-span2. king s counsel is the memoir of the late jack o connell who was cia station chief in amman, jordan, from 1963 to 1971 and became king hue same s friend and close hussein s friend and close adviser. up next, vernon loeb and sean o connell jack o connell s son talk about the book. this is about an hour. good evening, and welcome to our middle east policy forum tonight. it s wonderful to have all of you here. this is a special program for me both because of the subject, the topic, but one also for years i was in the foreign service and having served in jordan twic
now on booktv, paula broadwell and vernon loeb talk about david petraeus his military career and his impact on the wars in iraq and afghanistan. general petraeus gave the authors full access to him and his team for the book. this is about an hour. good evening. i m co-owner of politics and prose, along with my wife. on the health on behalf of the entire staff, i d like to welcome you here. before turning to our guest authors, i d just like to say a word about an important event coming up this april. it s being called world both night, and it s an ambitious attempt to hand out 1 million free books around the united states. you can read about how this amazing effort is being organized at sign up to get involved yourself at u.s. dot world book night.org. i have mentioned this deceiving because the deadline to sign up is tonight, so there still time after this event. and now a word about our guests this evening. paula broadwell and vernon loeb and their new book all in: the
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