The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

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 broadens and deepens our knowledge of these signal events by taking us behind the scenes. Here is Sayyid Qutb, founder of the modern Islamist movement, lonely and despairing as he meets Western culture up close in 1940s America; the privileged childhoods of bin Laden and Zawahiri; family life in the al-Qaeda compounds of Sudan and Afghanistan; O'Neill's high-wire act in balancing his all-consuming career with his equally entangling personal life–he was living with three women, each of them unaware of the others' existence–and the nitty-gritty of turf battles among U.S. intelligence agencies.
Brilliantly conceived and written, The Looming Tower draws all elements of the story into a galvanizing narrative that adds immeasurably to our understanding of how we arrived at September 11, 2001. The richness of its new information, and the depth of its perceptions, can help us deal more wisely and effectively with the continuing terrorist threat.


Content:
101 _ Tantor Media _ The Looming Tower _ Lawrence Wright
102 _ Al Qaeda and the Road to 9 11 _ Prologue
201 _ Ch 01 _ The Martyr _ Narrated by Alan Sklar
202 _ Ch 02 _ The Sporting Club
203 _ Ch 03 _ The Founder
204 _ Ch 04 _ Change
205 _ Ch 05 _ The Miracles
206 _ Ch 06 _ The Base
207 _ Ch 07 _ Return of the Hero
208 _ Ch 08 _ Paradise
209 _ Ch 09 _ The Silicon Valley
210 _ Ch 10 _ Paradise Lost
211 _ Ch 11 _ The Prince of Darkness
212 _ Ch 12 _ The Boy Spies
213 _ Ch 13 _ Hijira
214 _ Ch 14 _ Going Operational
215 _ Ch 15 _ Bread and Water
216 _ Ch 16 _ Now It Begins
217 _ Ch 17 _ The New Millennium
218 _ Ch 18 _ Boom
219 _ Ch 19 _ The Big Wedding
220 _ Ch 20 _ Revelations
221 _ Tantor Media _ The Looming Tower _ Lawrence Wright

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