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

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

Lawrence Wright

3

awards won

29

score

#35 of 3,809 books · #12 in History

Won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2007), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (2006), and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (2007). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

The Looming Tower won the Pulitzer Prize and was a National Bestseller. In gripping narrative that spans five decades, Lawrence Wright re-creates firsthand the transformation of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri from incompetent and idealistic soldiers in Afghanistan to leaders of the most successful terrorist group in history. He follows FBI counterterrorism chief John O'Neill as he uncovers the emerging danger from al-Qaeda in the 1990s and struggles to track this new threat. Packed with new information and a deep historical perspective, The Looming Tower is a sweeping, unprecedented history of the long road to September 11.

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Publisher
Vintage
ISBN-13
9780307266088
Genre
History
Topics
Al-Qaeda and terrorism9/11 attacksIslamic fundamentalism

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