The looming tower Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11

Main Author:	Wright, Lawrence, 1947-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Knopf, 2006.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Qaida (Organization) September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001. Terrorism > Government policy > United States. Intelligence service > United States.

Physical Description:	469 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-438) and index.
ISBN:	037541486X 9781400030842
Author Notes:	Lawrence Wright (born August 2, 1947), Pulitzer Prize winning author, graduated from Tulane University and spent two years teaching at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Wright is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a fellow at the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. Wright is the author of the books God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State (2018), Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (2013), Pulitzer Prize winning non-fiction The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006), Noriega: God's Favorite (2000), Twins: And What They Tell Us About Who We Are (1999), Remembering Satan (1994), Saints & Sinners (1993), In the New World: Growing Up in America, 1964-1984 (1987), and City Children, Country Summer: A Story of Ghetto Children Among the Amish (1979). (Bowker Author Biography)