The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

By Lawrence Wright

Categories: History

Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning history of al-Qaeda and the events leading to the September 11 attacks.

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• Sam Harris
• Fareed Zakaria: “It’s essentially a history of Islamic radicalism, tracing its roots -- many of them in Egypt -- all the way through to 9/11. It’s fascinating”