The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage)
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 leaders of the most successful terrorist group in history. He follows FBI counterterrorism chief John O’Neill as he uncovers the emerging danger from al-Qaeda in the 1990s and struggles to track this new threat. Packed with new information and a deep historical perspective, The Looming Tower is the definitive history of the long road to September 11.
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212 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Aug 08, 2007 Type: User Review |
Informative and well-researched
Lawrence Wright's book The Looming Tower seemed to be well-researched and very well written. Wright chronicles, in detail, the lives of three very important men in the rise of Al Qaeda and radical Islam in general. Sayyid Qtub, a...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Aug 08, 2007 Type: User Review |
Informative and captivating
Lawrence Wright's, The Looming Tower provides its readers an informative, captivating and historical look at "Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11". From the rise and fall of Islamic power to the revolutionaries that inspired Osama bin Laden, Ayman...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Aug 03, 2007 Type: User Review |
a needed and welcome study
Wright's Pulitzer Prize winning history of modern Islamic extremism and the fight to stop it should be essential reading to a public and decision makers who seem ignorant of the causes, motivations and background of America and the West's enemies....
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 29, 2007 Type: User Review |
Essential reference
Didn't know bin Laden was first against Egypt's government? Wondered how the origins of the fundamentalist appeal started, and how Egypt's torture and imprisonments seeded al Qaeda? Read this book, and you will probably know more about al...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 29, 2007 Type: User Review |
Somewhat hollow
This is a very good book for people not familiar with the historical roots of al Qaeda. It does an excellent job with the Bin Laden and Zawahiri background story. Also, it has a sure feel for the day to day foibles of CIA/FBI/NSA communication....
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 24, 2007 Type: User Review |
A must read
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 is a facinating and compelling read. Much to be learned here about the radicals who would kill us.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 18, 2007 Type: User Review |
A tour de force
A gripping, page-turning history of Osama Bin-Laden and Al-Qaeda from its creation to September 11,2001, and its reasons for declaring war on the United States. The book also tells the story of the philandering FBI agent John O'Neill who saw the...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 08, 2007 Type: User Review |
Great Factual Historical Work
If you are looking for a book that lends understanding to the numerous threads of happenstance that culminated in the 9/11 attacks, you have just found it. This book records the lives and events of five specific characters: Sayyid Qutb, Ayman...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 07, 2007 Type: User Review |
Stunning book
This is an incredible book. It sets out the origins of and main players in modern islamic terrorism.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 01, 2007 Type: User Review |
Really 3 1/2 Stars
"The Looming Tower" is about the building and concept of Al-Qaeda as a terror organization and the United States' efforts to stop it. The lives of Bin-Laden, Zawahiri, Prince Turki Faisal and FBI agent John O'Neill intersect in the book, which...
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