The looming tower : Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11 / Lawrence Wright.
This sweeping narrative history of 9/11 includes important new information about the people, ideas, events, and intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks, told for the first time from both the American and Arab sides of the story
Record details
- ISBN: 037541486X
- ISBN: 9780375414862
- ISBN: 9781400030842
- Physical Description: xi unnumbered pages, 469 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Knopf, 2006.
- Copyright: ©2006
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-438) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 1 Martyr 9 -- 2 Sporting Club 38 -- 3 Founder 69 -- 4 Change 97 -- 5 Miracles 114 -- 6 Base 139 -- 7 Return of the Hero 165 -- 8 Paradise 185 -- 9 Silicon Valley 200 -- 10 Paradise Lost 213 -- 11 Prince of Darkness 230 -- 12 Boy Spies 242 -- 13 Hijira 254 -- 14 Going Operational 260 -- 15 Bread and Water 278 -- 16 "Now It Begins" 297 -- 17 New Millennium 325 -- 18 Boom 340 -- 19 Big Wedding 376 -- 20 Revelations 408 -- Principal Characters 423.
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