The looming tower : Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11 / Lawrence Wright.
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TextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 2007, c2006.Edition: 1st Vintage Books edDescription: 550 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cmISBN: - 1400030846 (pbk.)
- 9781400030842 (pbk.)
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
- Qaida (Organization)
- Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States
- Intelligence service -- United States
- September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001
- Qaida (Organization)
- Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States
- Intelligence service -- United States
- Terrorisme -- États-Unis
- Qaida (Organization)
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001)
- Intelligence service
- Terrorism -- Government policy
- United States
- 2001
- Class of Fall 2007
- Guest speaker
- 973.931 22
- HV6432.7 .W75 2007b
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Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 499-510) and index.
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 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.
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