The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
- ISBN-10
- 037541486X
- ISBN-13
- 9780375414862
- Series
- The Looming Tower
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 469
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
- Author
- Lawrence Wright
Description
Explores both the American and Arab sides of the September 11th terrorist attacks in an account of the people, ideas, events, and intelligence failures that led to the attacks.
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