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The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda's Road To 9/11 (Pulitzer Prize)
[Paperback - 2011]
lawrence wright
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Publisher: Penguin Uk | ISBN: 9780141029351 | Pages: 576
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Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, The Looming Tower is the first book to tell the full story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. Drawing on astonishing interviews and first-hand sources, it investigates the extraordinary group of idealogues behind this organization - and those who tried to stop them. There is the tormented, resentful Egyptian Sayyid Qutb, who was horrified by the godlessness and decadence he perceived in America in 1948, and whose subsequent writings turned him into a martyr for Islamic extremists. There is Ayman al-Zawahiri: a devout student who, by the age of fifteen, had already helped to form an underground jihadist cell. There is the deeply contradictory Osama bin Laden: Saudi multimillionaire turned muhajideen commander, whose interests merged with al-Zawahiri's to form a global terror coalition. And there is the FBI's counterterrorism chief, the flamboyant, cigar-smoking John O'Neill, who found his warnings that 'something big' was coming continually ignored, and would finally meet his fate in the shadow of the Twin Towers. Interweaving this extraordinary story with events including the Israeli-Palestine conflict, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the first attack on the World Trade Center, Lawrence Wright takes us into training camps, mountain hideouts and top secret meetings to explore how it all fed into the planning and execution of 9/11 - and reveals the real, complex origins of Al Qaeda's hatred of the West.Wright's brilliantly acclaimed book now includes a new Afterword which covers events that have unfolded since publication, including the death of Osama Bin Laden

About the Author

There is more than one author with this nameLawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, screenwriter, staff writer forThe New Yorkermagazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. He is a graduate of Tulane University, and for two years taught at the American University in Cairo in Egypt.Wright graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School (Dallas, Texas) in 1965 and, in 2009, was inducted into Woodrow's Hall of Fame.Wright is the author of six books, but is best known for his 2006 book, TheLooming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. A quick bestseller, TheLooming Towerwas awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and is frequently referenced by media pundits as an excellent source of background information on Al Qaeda and the September 11 attacks. The book's title is a phrase from the Quran: "Wherever you are, death will find you, even in the looming tower," which Osama bin Laden quoted three times in a videotaped speech seen as directed to the 9/11 hijackers.Among Wright's other books isRemembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory(1994), about the Paul Ingram false memory case. On June 7, 1996, Wright testified at Ingram's pardon hearing.Wright also co-wrote the screenplay for the filmThe Siege(1998), which told the story of a terrorist attack in New York City that led to curtailed civil liberties and rounding up of Arab-Americans.A script that Wright originally wrote for Oliver Stone was turned instead into a well-regarded Showtime movie,Noriega: God's Favorite(2000).A documentary featuring Wright,My Trip to Al-Qaeda, premiered on HBO in September 2010. Based on his journeys and experience in the Middle East during his research forThe Looming Tower,My Trip to Al-Qaedacovers topics ranging from the current state of the regime in Saudi Arabia to the historic underpinnings of 9/11.

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