The Looming Tower

The Looming Tower

By Lawrence Wright
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Powerful and important . . . a history of a man and a movement, replete with the accidents of history and historic inevitability.
Kevin Horrigan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

Among shortlisted titles for Arthur Ross Book Award, 2007

Winner of J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, 2007

Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (History), 2007

Winner of Lionel Gelber Prize, 2007

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11” (The New York Times Book Review), this definitive history explains in gripping 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.

One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years

In gripping narrative that spans five decades, 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 a sweeping, unprecedented history of the long road to September 11.