Book · 2006 · Nonfiction

The Looming Tower

Name: The Looming Tower
Author: Lawrence Wright

Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Lawrence Wright

Vintage Books (Penguin Random House) · 541 pages

★ 5.4 editorial score

The book that made 9/11 comprehensible. Wright traces al-Qaeda to an Egyptian educator radicalized in small-town Colorado, closing on the FBI's bin Laden hunter, dead in the towers he was guarding.

Genre

Political history History

Subject

Al Qaeda 9-11 Radical Islam

Setting

Egypt Greeley, Colorado

Time

2006Depicts 20th century

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