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- Author : Lawrence Wright
- Publisher : Vintage
- Release : 02 February 2018
- ISBN : 9780525564362
- Page : 592 pages
- Rating : 4.5/5 from 44 voters
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Explores both the American and Arab sides of the September 11th terrorist attacks in an account of the people, ideas, events, and intelligence failures that led to the tragedies.
The Looming Tower
- Author : Lawrence Wright
- Publisher : Vintage
- Release Date : 2018-02-02
- ISBN : 9780525564362
Explores both the American and Arab sides of the September 11th terrorist attacks in an account of the people, ideas, events, and intelligence failures that led to the tragedies.
The Looming Tower
- Author : Lawrence Wright
- Publisher : Vintage
- Release Date : 2006-08-08
- ISBN : 9780307266088
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11” (The New York Times Book Review), this definitive history explains in gripping detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center. A gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in
The Looming Tower
- Author : Lawrence Wright
- Publisher : Penguin UK
- Release Date : 2014-11-27
- ISBN : 9780141980850
THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR NEW TV SERIES This is the definitive account of the run-up to 9/11: from the man who lit the spark of radical Islam in 1948, to those who built up a terror network, and to the FBI agent whose warnings of 'something big' coming were ignored until the Twin Towers fell. 'The Looming Tower is a thriller. And it's a tragedy, too' The New York Times 'The most detailed (and thrilling) account we have of
The Terror Years
- Author : Lawrence Wright
- Publisher : Vintage
- Release Date : 2017-07
- ISBN : 9780804170031
Several "pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS ... They include an ... impression of Saudi Arabia, a kingdom of silence under the control of the religious police; the Syrian film industry, then compliant at the edges but already exuding a feeling of the barely masked fury that erupted into civil war; [and]
Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State
- Author : Ali Soufan
- Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
- Release Date : 2017-05-02
- ISBN : 9780393242034
"Anyone who wants to understand the world we live in now should read this book." —Lawrence Wright To eliminate the scourge of terrorism, we must first know who the enemy actually is, and what his motivations are. In Anatomy of Terror, former FBI special agent and New York Times best-selling author Ali Soufan dissects Osama bin Laden’s brand of jihadi terrorism and its major offshoots, revealing how these organizations were formed, how they operate, their strengths, and—crucially—their
The End of October
- Author : Lawrence Wright
- Publisher : Knopf
- Release Date : 2020
- ISBN : 9780525658658
"At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now, Henry joins forces with a Saudi doctor and prince in an attempt to
Going Clear
- Author : Lawrence Wright
- Publisher : Vintage
- Release Date : 2013-01-17
- ISBN : 9780385350273
National Book Award Finalist A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative ability to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church of Scientology. At the book’s center, two
God Save Texas
- Author : Lawrence Wright
- Publisher : Vintage
- Release Date : 2018-04-17
- ISBN : 9780525520115
A New York Times Notable Book National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist An NPR Best Book of the Year God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot
The Looming Tower
- Author : Lawrence Wright
- Publisher : Vintage
- Release Date : 2018-02-02
- ISBN : 9780525564362
Explores both the American and Arab sides of the September 11th terrorist attacks in an account of the people, ideas, events, and intelligence failures that led to the tragedies.
Remembering Satan
- Author : Lawrence Wright
- Publisher : Vintage
- Release Date : 2011-04-27
- ISBN : 9780307790675
In 1988 Ericka and Julie Ingram began making a series of accusations of sexual abuse against their father, Paul Ingram, who was a respected deputy sheriff in Olympia, Washington. At first the accusations were confined to molestations in their childhood, but they grew to include torture and rape as recently as the month before. At a time when reported incidents of "recovered memories" had become widespread, these accusations were not unusual. What captured national attention in this case is that, under
The Black Banners
- Author : Ali Soufan
- Publisher : Penguin UK
- Release Date : 2011-09-12
- ISBN : 9780141971780
'If you see the Black Banners coming from Khurasan, join that army, even if you have to crawl over ice; no power will be able to stop them' Hadith attributed to the Prophet Muhammad The Black Banners is the ultimate insider's account of the realities of counter-terrorism. During a decade on the front lines, as the FBI's lead investigator into Al Qaeda, Ali Soufan thwarted plots around the world and won some of the most important confessions from terrorists -
The Man Who Warned America
- Author : Murray Weiss
- Publisher : Harper Collins
- Release Date : 2004-05-25
- ISBN : 9780060508234
Presents the life and death of John P. O'Neill, an FBI agent immersed in terrorist investigations, who attempted to warn top officials of the growing terrorist threat and perished in the attacks on September 11th.
Osama Bin Laden
- Author : Michael Scheuer
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Release Date : 2011-02-01
- ISBN : 9780199753277
9/11 almost instantaneously remade American politics and foreign policy. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Patriot Act, water boarding and Guantanamo are examples of its profound and far-reaching effects. But despite its monumental impact--and a deluge of books about al-Qaeda and Islamist terrorism--no one has written a serious assessment of the man who planned it, Osama bin Laden. Available biographies depict bin Laden as an historical figure, the mastermind behind 9/11, but no longer relevant to the world it created. These
The Plague Year
- Author : Lawrence Wright
- Publisher : Knopf
- Release Date : 2021
- ISBN : 9780593320723
Beginning with the absolutely critical first moments of the outbreak in China, and ending with an epilogue on the vaccine rollout and the unprecedented events between the election of Joseph Biden and his inauguration, Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year surges forward with essential information--and fascinating historical parallels--examining the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
War of Necessity, War of Choice
- Author : Richard N. Haass
- Publisher : Simon and Schuster
- Release Date : 2009-05-05
- ISBN : 143916570X
When should the United States go to war? It is arguably the most important foreign policy question facing any president, and Richard Haass -- a member of the National Security Council staff for the first President Bush and the director of policy planning in the State Department for Bush II -- is in a unique position to address it. Haass is one of just a handful of individuals -- along with Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Bob Gates