Why would Petraeus pick an unknown to write his biography?
On CNN's Candy Crowley show today, the journalists spoke about how Petraeus cultivated the DC media - he would call them on background to chat (from Afghanistan) and he would always take their calls. Here is a guy with extraordinary relationships with the media, who could have Brokaw or Woodward or anyone he wanted to write his biography with him -- yet he allows an unpublished author the job.
Strange, very strange....
Maybe he offered her the job because he was already having the affair and the job was good cover.
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write it. She was a PhD candidate doing her doctoral dissertation on him. The book was an expansion of her dissertation (quite a standard happening-- publish or perish, you know!)
http://www.penguinspeakersbureau.com/speakers/page/paula_broadwell (and try not to 
at the "Paula’s passion for leadership" part!)
Also, people generally have say in who writes or helps them to write an AUTObiography, not a biography. That said, she did have amazing access. When he started having amazing access to HER is the question.
