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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda's Road to 9/11 - Lawrence Wright
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda's Road to 9/11
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780141029351 (0141029358)
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
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SJane
SJane rated it
So, did this account of the long wind-up to 9/11 “read like fiction,” as one of the blurbs proclaims? Well, there was a plot and strong narrative. There was intrigue. Far-flung settings, yes, and a list of characters long enough to rival "War and Peace." But at the same time, as engaging as it was, ...
Brick
Brick rated it
A wonderful book, a must read. Every now and then I come in contact with a book that is the product of an incredibly impressive amount of research, conducted with diligence and perseverance over an extended period of time, written by a person with an astonishingly encyclopedic grasp of important ev...
thebookcoop
thebookcoop rated it
A 3.75 and I'd possibly have liked it more had I not read it over such an elongated time. I was so fed up by still reading this book after so long I got a little bitter.
Lost in the Stacks
Lost in the Stacks rated it
5.0
Excellent. The Looming Tower is an excellent narrative history of the events leading up to the September 11th terror attacks and will hopefully be required reading for any course on the subject. I had no idea how many knowledge gaps that I had about Al-Qaeda and Bin Laden and the U.S.' activities in...
EricCWelch
EricCWelch rated it
Well, I finally found my notes and got this review finished - long overdue.For all the energy, lives and treasure we have devoted to Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s important to remember that they had nothing to do with 9/11 which became the excuse for our actions rather than the proximate rationale. We ...
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