The Looming Tower
ISBN: 9781400030842 | 1400030846
Edition: 1stFormat: Trade Paper
Publisher: Vintage
Pub. Date: 8/21/2007
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National Book Award Finalist A "Time,"" Newsweek,"" Washington Post,"" Chicago Tribune,"" "and "New York Times Book Review" Best Book of the Year A gripping narrative that spans five decades," "The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center. Lawrence Wright re-creates firsthand the transformation of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri from incompetent and idealistic soldiers in Afghanistan to l... MORE
| Map | p. xi |
| Prologue | p. 3 |
| The Martyr | p. 9 |
| The Sporting Club | p. 38 |
| The Founder | p. 69 |
| Change | p. 97 |
| The Miracles | p. 114 |
| The Base | p. 139 |
| Return of the Hero | p. 165 |
| Paradise | p. 185 |
| The Silicon Valley | p. 200 |
| Paradise Lost | p. 213 |
| The Prince of D... MORE | p. 230 |
| The Boy Spies | p. 242 |
| Hijira | p. 254 |
| Going Operational | p. 260 |
| Bread and Water | p. 278 |
| "Now It Begins" | p. 297 |
| The New Millennium | p. 325 |
| Boom | p. 340 |
| The Big Wedding | p. 376 |
| Revelations | p. 408 |
| Principal Characters | p. 423 |
| Notes | p. 435 |
| Bibliography | p. 489 |
| Author Interviews | p. 501 |
| Acknowledgments and Notes on Sources | p. 509 |
| Index | p. 519 |
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Lawrence Wright graduated from Tulane University and spent two years teaching at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a fellow at the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. The author of five works of nonfiction—City Children, Country Summer; In the New World; Saints and Sinners; Remembering Satan; and Twins—he has also written a novel, God’s Favorite, and was cowriter of the movie The Siege. He and his wife are longtime residents of Austin, Texas.
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