The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
- ISBN-10
- 0525564365
- ISBN-13
- 9780525564362
- Series
- The Looming Tower
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 592
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-02-02
- Publisher
- Vintage
- 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 tragedies.
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- 2006
- 469 pages
- Paperback
- Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
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