The Looming Tower
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The Looming Tower
| Full title | The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 |
|---|---|
| Author | Lawrence Wright |
| Published | 2006 |
| Pages | 550 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer-winning reconstruction of al-Qaeda’s formation and of the FBI and CIA failures that let it reach September 11 — built around four biographies. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — named in the replies to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025.
- @patrick_oshag’s thread — named in the replies to his question “Anyone read anything thought provoking lately ?”, October 2026 (@futurenomics: “The Looming Tower”). Full set of replies: Anyone read anything thought provoking… (tweet).
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- Terrorism · Religion · History · Institutions — where this sits in the corpus.
What links here
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