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WNYC, hands down this is the worst interview I have ever heard on any of your programming. Leonard Lopate should be ashamed. If he cannot or will not adequately prepare for an interview, he should stick to fluff material like home improvement and quandaries in the English language. Leave the important stuff to Brian.

Focus on the idea the author presented early - the big M. The Personal Mythos that Petraeus' mentor taught him. This book is all a part of that...so when Petraeus retires, and he runs for office (he will) his mythos is written by someone besides himself...

I have not read any of the negative press re; the General, I hold him the normal distant high regards for what he has done for his country, and his apparent intelligence - but now I want to read these other articles because of the sycophancy she exhibits...

WOW! THe reaction on this comment section, you would think she wrote a book glorifying Jeffrey Dahlmer. So see told a story about an individual that interested her.
Did Mel Gibson show the bad side of Jesus in his story?

...sounds to me like Paula Broadwell is the co-star of that movie.

Go, Army™ guys!!!

yeah.

not that comment this one you idiots:

the title sounds like the title of a gay porn movie.

Hero-worship does not a book of stature make. If this General is half the man the author claims he is, he himself would season this interview with a measure of humility.If I hadn't seen a photo of the general in the newspapers, I would picture Zeus with a trident and thunderbolt. Perhaps this smug "expert" needs to recall what an honor it is to be invited to this interview- not the other way around. The sarcasm and condescension is so patently obvious that it's uncomfortable.

She's really laying it on thick. She sounds like she's gotten way too close to her subject. Now, I'm wondering just how "great" he really is. I don't think she's helping or undermining him. Ick.

Sorry but no cultures aka people appreciate the wearing of sun glasses when trying to communicate. It's the equivalent of looking away when you're talking to someone. They "eyes have it".

o come on post my comment it's at least funny, you npr slags are so lame.

Has the author put Petraeus on Mount Rushmore yet?

Leonard I am sorry but you are totally dropping the ball on this interview. How are you not seeing this as propaganda for the general rather than a book about him?

The interviewee wonders how to prevent PTSD in our "troopers" after multiple tours of duty? This is an easy one: stop fighting useless and bloody wars.

It's clear from the title of the book that there is no pretense to objectivity here. Sounds like she spent too long embedded with this creep.

This is just pathetic...

This really feels like a slanted biography. I am sad that you are not being more skeptical as an interviewer.

what a brainwashed little troll,
get back to her total lack of objectivity...