I despise “60 Minutes”.
BUT.....
I read half of “3 Cups....” after I heard Bill Bennett endorse it on the air.
(That should have been a warning sign all by itself.)
Accuracy aside, Greg Mortenson wrote the book in a tone of narcissism, self-congratulation and self-canonization.
He glowingly compared his own virtue to that of Mother Theresa about halfway through the bookk.
I’ve got theological differences with M.T., but I had to drop the book there.
I was disgusted by Mortenson’s ready embrace of the backward culture of the islamists and his shame at being Western. He makes it clear that the noble savages of the Himalayan hinterlands are infinitely the cultural superiors of us greedy capitalists, despite the fact that he was basically fleeced out of thousands of dollars worth of building materials by one of his “guides.” I couldn’t finish the book; nausea overcame me.