The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning history of al-Qaeda and the road to the 9/11 attacks. It follows Sayyid Qutb, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden and the FBI’s John O’Neill, and shows how the attacks were planned and how American agencies missed them.
Recommended by 1 Person
Audrey Kurth Cronin
Wright’s book is written in an engaging style, engrossing and entertaining but well-researched, based solidly on facts, and never sensationalistic. There is also a very nice appendix with a summary of the main characters, a big help for those who find it difficult to remember Arabic names. My students consistently love it. There is a reason why The Looming Tower won the Pulitzer Prize. It is a very fine book.
Interview · January 2015
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