The Looming Tower.The Looming Tower Lawrence Wright Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, screenwriter and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and a current fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. Tantor Media, Inc. 114 Mill Rock Road East, Old Saybrook, CT 06475 140013305X $79.99 www.tantor.com 1-877-782-6867 Written by author and screenwriter Lawrence Wright (who is also a staff writer for 'The New Yorker' magazine) and professionally narrated by Alan Sklar, "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda And The Road To 9/11" is an informed and informative history of the events, personalities, and policies that provide insight about one of the truly formative episodes in American history--the attack by Islamic fundamentalists upon the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. on September 11, 2001. Here detailed are the people, ideas, events and intelligence failures told from both American and the Islamic viewpoints. The narrative interweaves the lives of our men: two of the leaders of al-Qaeda (Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden: see bin Laden, Osama. and Ayman al-Zawahiri Ayman Muhammad Rabaie al-Zawahiri (Arabic: أيمن محمد ربيع الظواهر?) or closer to the original Arabic pronunciation ) and the FBI's counter-terrorism chief (John O'Neill John O'Neill may refer to:
n. The speech of native speakers of American English that many consider to be typical of the United States, noted for its exclusion of phonological forms readily recognized as regional or limited to particular social groups and for citizen wanting a sound understanding of the coordinated attacks which plunged America into a global war on Islamic fundamentalist driven terrorism, this complete and unabridged library edition (consisting of 14 CDS with a total running time of 16.5 hours) of "The Looming Tower" should be on the shelves of every academic and community library system in the country. "The Looming Tower" is also available from Tantor Media is a retail audiobook edition (1400103053, 14 CDs, $39.99) as well as an MP3 CD edition (1400153050, 2 CDs, $39.99). |
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