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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 is a 2006 non-fiction book by Lawrence Wright, a journalist for The New Yorker. Wright examines the origins of the militant organization Al-Qaeda, the background for various terrorist attacks and how they were investigated, and the events that led to the September 11 attacks .
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Created by Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney & Lawrence Wright. (2018) Nominated for three Emmys and based on Wright’s Pulitzer-prize winning book of the same name, The Looming Tower traces the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s and how the rivalry between the FBI and CIA during that time may have inadvertently set the ...
21 ago 2007 · Lawrence Wright. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Aug 21, 2007 - Political Science - 592 pages. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “heart-stopping account of the events leading up...
Wright is the author of ten books, including The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, which spent eight weeks on The New York Times best-seller list and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Time Magazine pronounced it one of the 100 best nonfiction books ever written.
About The Looming Tower. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11” (The New York Times Book Review), this definitive history explains in gripping detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks ...
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8 ago 2006 · The Looming Tower : Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 | Lawrence Wright. Knopf (Release date: August 8, 2006) Penguin, UK (Release date: August 31, 2006) From the cover of the New York Times Book Review (August 6, 2006)
8 ago 2006 · by Lawrence Wright (Author) 4.6 4,112 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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.
