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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

by Lawrence Wright

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A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, The Looming Tower is a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America.

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A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, The Looming Tower is a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America.

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About Lawrence

Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine.

He is a graduate of Tulane University, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the American University in Cairo, where he taught English and received master of...

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Published Reviews

Dec.13.2007

The Evolution of Al Qaeda and the Intertwining Paths Leading to 9/11

Published by The New York Times

Mr. Wright’s book, based on more than five hundred interviews, … gives the reader a searing view of the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, a view that is at once wrenchingly intimate and boldly sweeping...

Dec.13.2007

Young Werther in the '60s

Published by The New York Times

[Lawrence Wright’s] book is neither straight history nor confessional memoir. Instead, he has told his own story, describing what it was like to grow up as an above-average and thus typical baby boomer, in...