Three Cups of Tea, his account of how he came to dedicate his life to building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan, has sold 4 million copies and remained in the New York Times bestseller list for more than four years. The scale of Mortenson's tumble is partly amplified by the dizzy heights that, until Sunday, he occupied in the realms of both publishing and philanthropy. But rarely has there been anything quite as spectacular as this week's fall from grace of Greg Mortenson, author of the wildly successful and until now highly revered memoir Three Cups of Tea.
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