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Contact: Courtney Greenhalgh212.782.8971;cgreenhalgh@randomhouse.com 
They were four exceptional soldiers, a new generation asked to save an army that had been hollowed out after Vietnam. They survived the military’s brutal winnowing to reach its topechelon. They became the Army’s most influential generals in the crucible of Iraq.
 THE FOURTH STAR 
Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for theFuture of the United States ArmyBy DAVID CLOUD and GREG JAFFE
“This is the best book I have read on the military in a long time. It is a sparkling account of today’s U.S. Army 
 ─ 
a work of art that offers novelistic details but also carries the impact of well-reported fact. Ilearned something on nearly every page, and much of it astonished me.”
 ─ 
 Thomas E. Ricks,
New York Times 
bestselling author of 
Fiasco 
and
The Gamble 
“Must reading...A remarkably candid portrait of four colorful personalities that shows how the world'slargest corporation, the U.S. Army, molds its top leaders.”
 ─ 
Bing West, author of 
The Village 
,
No True Glory 
and
The Strongest Tribe 
 
“Impressively profiles four generals who have earned the fourth star…also deals a blow to any monolithic conception of the “military mind,” a balloon that cannot be deflated too often.”
 ─ 
Booklist 
 “Insightful…a perceptive look at intelligent, capable generals trying their best.”
 
 ─ 
Kirkus Reviews 
 In
 THE FOURTH STAR: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for theFuture of the United States Army
 
(Crown; October 13, 2009)
, David Cloud andGreg Jaffe show how the American military elevates the best and brightest to power.Cloud, the newly appointed special assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan(most recently the chief national security writer at Politico.com and formerly thePentagon correspondent for the
New York Times 
 ), and Jaffe, the Pentagoncorrespondent at the
Washington Post 
(who previously held the same position at the
Wall Street Journal 
 ),obtained full access to Iraq’s most influential generals as well as to their family members and subordinates. The result is a detailed portrait of these remarkable men and the U.S. Army that no newspaper or magazinearticle could capture and no book, until now, has attempted.
 THE FOURTH STAR 
follows:
 
General David Petraeus,
a driven soldier-scholar. Determined to reach the Army’s summitalmost since the day he entered West Point, he sometimes alienated peers with his ambition and
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