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Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright for a discussion of his new book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Included in the conversation are profiles of Mohammed Qutb, Osama Bin Ladin, and Dr. Ayman al-Zawarhiri. key figures in the radical jihadist movement that became Al Qaeda. Wright also reflects on the career of FBI agent John O'Neill who lead the FBI search for terrorists within the United States and was killed` in the destruction of the Twin Towers. Series: "Conversations with History" [1/2007] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 12117]

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  • excellent

  • This book reads like a novel, read it in about 16 hrs. total. Have also read, because of this book: The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of The House of Saud, by Said K. Aburis; and The Kingdom: Arabia & The House of Sa'ud, by Robert Lacy.

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  • I believe this is the journalist who goes after Scientology in the upcoming (Feb) NEW YORKER magazine. Can't wait to read it. I've heard a 20 min interview on NPR's Fresh Air. Google NPR and click on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, I believe his her last name. She speaks with Lawerence...

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    Thank you for your reccomendation and to pass on to you:  Taliban and Jihad; both by Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid.

  • Masterminds of Terror: The Truth Behind the Most Devastating Attack The World Has Ever Seen by Yousri Fouda is a good book on this subject.

  • Not only was this the best ever on 9/11, it is without doubt, one of the best books that I have read, period.

  • The Looming Towers was a great piece of literature.

    1000 Years For Revenge is even better!

  • Just finished The Looming Tower which is not just a great piece of investigative journalism but on of the best books I've ever read. Would love to see HBO turn it into a mini-series like THE WIRE.

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