“The definitive book on the 19 men who brought such devastation and terror to this country … a well-told, meticulously researched cautionary tale.” — Washington Post Book World
Using research undertaken in twenty countries on four continents, Los Angeles Times correspondent Terry McDermott provides gripping, authoritative portraits of the main players in the 9/11 plot. With brilliant reporting and thoughtful analysis, McDermott brings us a clearer, more nuanced, and in some ways more frightening, understanding of the landmark event of our time.
The attacks of September 11, 2001, were a calamity on a scale few had imagined possible. In their aftermath, we exaggerated the men who perpetrated the attacks, shaping hasty and often mistaken reporting into caricatures we could comprehend–monsters and master criminals equal to the enormity of their crime. In reality, the 9/11 hijackers were unexceptional men, not much different from countless others. It is this ordinary enemy, not the caricature, that we must understand if we are to have a legitimate hope of defeating terrorism.
Author: Terry McDermott
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 08/15/2006
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 9.36h x 5.42w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780060584702
Language: English
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