![]() |
|
Product Description
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.
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.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- The 9/11 Commission Report with Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
- The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
- War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror
- Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, And Consumerism From Oklahoma City To Ground Zero
- Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite
- Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
- The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition)
- The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
- 50 Things They Don't Want You to Know
*If this is not the "Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link