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Looming Tower Al-Qaeda and the Road To 9/11

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ISBN-10: 037541486X

ISBN-13: 9780375414862

Edition: 2006

Authors: Lawrence Wright

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A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. "The Looming Tower" achieves an unprecedented level of intimacy and insight by telling the story through the interweaving lives of four men: the two leaders of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri; the FBI's counterterrorism chief, John O'Neill; and the…    
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Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/8/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.178
Language: English

Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize winning author, graduated from Tulane University and spent two years teaching at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Wright is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a fellow at the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. Wright is the author of the Books Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief (2013), Pulitzer Prize winning The Looming Tower : Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006), Noriega: God's Favorite (2000), Twins: And What They Tell Us About Who We Are (1999), Remembering Satan (1994), Saints & Sinners (1993), In the New World: Growing Up in America, 1964-1984 (1987), and City Children, Country Summer: A…    

Map
Prologue
The Martyr
The Sporting Club
The Founder
Change
The Miracles
The Base
Return of the Hero
Paradise
The Silicon Valley
Paradise Lost
The Prince of Darkness
The Boy Spies
Hijira
Going Operational
Bread and Water
"Now It Begins"
The New Millennium
Boom
The Big Wedding
Revelations
Principal Characters
Notes
Bibliography
Author Interviews
Acknowledgments and Notes on Sources
Index