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Include books by the same authorThe Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
Lawrence Wright · 480 pages
"Eleven powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from a more peaceful time in 1990s Israel to the recent beheadings of reporters by ISIS.With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. This collection draws on several
Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism
Thomas L. Friedman · 399 pages
*Longitudes and Attitudes* contains the columns Friedman has published about the most momentous news story of our time, as well as a diary of his experiences and reactions during this period of crisis. As the author writes, the book is "not meant to be a comprehensive study of September 11 and all the factors that went into it. Rather, my hope is that it will constitute a 'word album' that capture
In the Shadow of No Towers
Art Spiegelman · 48 pages
"For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were both highly personal and intensely political. In the Shadow of No Towers, his first new book of comics since the groundbreaking Maus, is an account of the events and aftermath of that tragic day." "Spiegelman and his family bore witness to the attacks in their lower Manhattan neighborho
Holy War Inc. Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden
Peter L. Bergen · 304 pages
"On September 11, 2001, the world in which we live was changed forever. The twin towers of the World Trade Center came crashing down, one side of the Pentagon burst into flames, and more than six thousand men, women, and children lost their lives in the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil. As shocking as it was, it had been long in the making: the assault was the most sophisticated and
ISIS: The State of Terror
Jessica Stern, J.M. Berger · 385 pages
"Two of America's leading experts on violent extremism and terrorism explain the genesis, evolution, and implications of today's most barbaric jihadist army, Islamic State--and how we can fight it"-- Though terrorist groups are a fixture of contemporary politics and warfare, the world has never witnessed the degree of sheer brutality demonstrated by the group know as ISIS-- the Islamic State of I
United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists
Peter Bergen · 387 pages
Presents a look at "homegrown" Islamist terrorism, from 9/11 to the present, discusses the perpetrators who have acted both in the U.S. and abroad, and examines the controversial tactics used to track potential terrorists. --Publisher's description.
Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone
Scott Shane · 400 pages
A dramatic account of the cat-and-mouse game between the Obama administration and most-wanted terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki traces the President's shifting campaigns and the evolution of the robotic technology that ended Awlaki's life.
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Joby Warrick · 384 pages
"In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents. When the government of Jordan granted amnesty to a group of political prisoners in 1999, it little realized that among them was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a terrorist ma
ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror
Michael Weiss, Hassan Hassan · 341 pages
"How did a group of religious fanatics, clad in black pajamas and armed to the teeth, manage to carve out a violent, fundamentalist "Islamic state" in wide swaths of Syria and Iraq? How did the widely celebrated revolution against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad descend into a movement led by a psychopathically violent band of jihadists dedicated to the destruction of America? And just who are these
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States · 567 pages
Final report of the National Commission on terrorist attacks upon the United States. The result of months of intensive investigations and inquiries by a specially appointed bipartisan panel. While the commission notes that future attacks are probably inevitable, a coordinated preventive effort along with a clear plan to respond with efficiency can offer Americans some hope in a post-9/11 world.
9-11
Noam Chomsky · 134 pages
**9-11** is a collection of essays by and interviews with Noam Chomsky first published in November 2001 in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The revised edition of 2011, 9-11: *Was There an Alternative?*, includes the entire text of the original book, together with a new essay by Chomsky, "Was There an Alternative?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-11_(Noam_Chomsk
Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can't Ignore
Jay Sekulow, Jordan Sekulow, Robert Weston Ash, David A. French · 128 pages
Jay Sekulow, one of America's most influential attorneys, closely examines the rise of the terrorist groups ISIS and Hamas, explains their objectives and capabilities and how, if left undefeated, their existence could unleash a genocide of historic proportions. Recently, the world has been shaken by gruesome photos and videos that have introduced us to the now infamous terrorist group known as ISI
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
Bernard Lewis · 197 pages
In his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of terrorism. He looks at the theological origins of political Islam and takes us through the rise of militant Islam in Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, examining the impact of radical Wahhabi proselytizing, an
And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
Richard Engel · 241 pages
"Based on two decades of reporting, NBC's chief foreign correspondent's riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen up-close--sometimes dangerously so. When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab new
The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014
Carlotta Gall · 368 pages
500 Days: Decisions and Deceptions in the Shadow of 9/11
Kurt Eichenwald · 611 pages
The Rise of Islamic State
Patrick Cockburn · 172 pages
Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more successful than Al Qaeda ever were, taking territory that reaches across borders and includes the city of Mosul. The reports of their military coordination and
Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World
Jean Sasson, Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden · 334 pages
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
Gore Vidal · 197 pages
In Dreaming War, Vidal continues a line of defense promoted by his New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by confronting the Cheney-Bush junta head on in a series of devastating essays that demolish the lies American Empire lives by, unveiling a counter-history that traces the origins of America's current imperial ambitions to the experience of World War Two and the post-war T
Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
Mohsin Hamid · 241 pages
"From "one of his generation's most inventive and gifted writers" (The New York Times), intimate and sharply observed commentary on life, art, politics, and "the war on terror." Mohsin Hamid's brilliant, moving, and extraordinarily clever novels have not only made him an international bestseller, they have earned him a reputation as a "master critic of the modern global condition" (Foreign Policy)
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Sam Harris · 348 pages
A startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world, this historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify atrocities, asserts that in the shadow of weapons of mass destruction, we can not expect to survive our religious differences indefinitely. Most controversially, argues that moderate lip se