Title:
The looming tower : Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11
Author:
Edition:
Vintage Books edition (2021)
Publication Date:
2021
2006
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, LLC, 2021.
©2006
Physical Description:
xx, 550 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781400030842
Abstract:
Explores both the American and Arab sides of the September 11th terrorist attacks in an account of the people, ideas, events, and intelligence failures that led to the tragedies.
General Note:
Edition statement from preface.
"With a new preface" -- Cover.
First Vintage Books edition, September 2007, published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in slightly different form in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, 2006.
Contents:
Preface to the Vintage Books edition (2021) -- Prologue -- The martyr -- The sporting club -- The founder -- Change -- The miracles -- The base -- Return of the hero -- Paradise -- The Silicon Valley -- Paradise lost -- The prince of darkness -- The boy spies -- Hijira -- Going operational -- Bread and water -- "Now it begins" -- The new millennium -- Boom -- The big wedding -- Revelations -- Afterword to the Vintage Books edition (2011).
Corporate Subject:
Language:
English
