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‘Three Cups of Tea’: Publisher to ‘review’

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Last week, 60 Minutes announced allegations that Greg Mortenson’s best-selling memoir, Three Cups of Tea, was inaccurate and at least partly fabricated. CBS aired its investigation last night, and Viking Press, Mortenson’s Penguin Group-owned publisher, released this statement Monday morning:

“Greg Mortenson’s work as a humanitarian in Afghanistan and Pakistan has provided tens of thousands of kids with an education. 60 Minutes is a serious news organization and in the wake of their report, Viking plans to carefully review the materials with the author.”

Among other accusations, the newsmagazine claimed that Mortenson’s nonprofit organization, the Central Asia Institute (to which President Obama awarded $100,000 of his $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize money), didn’t actually build some schools in the Middle East, or that some schools were at least built by someone else. 60 Minutes also suggested that Mortenson was not actually kidnapped by the Taliban, as he claimed in the book.

‘Three Cups of Tea’: Inspirational memoir inaccurate, states ’60 Minutes’

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