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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 is a 2006 nonfiction book by Lawrence Wright, a journalist for The New Yorker.Wright examines the origins of the militant organization Al-Qaeda, the background for various terrorist attacks and how they were investigated, and the events that led to the September 11 attacks.
Wright is the author of six books but is best known for his 2006 publication, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. [6] A quick bestseller, The Looming Tower was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, [7] the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and is frequently referred to by some media pundits as being an excellent source of background information on Al Qaeda and the ...
The Looming Tower is an American drama television miniseries, based on Lawrence Wright's 2006 book of the same name, which premiered on Hulu on February 28, 2018. The 10-episode drama series was created and executive produced by Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney, and Wright.
This is an incomplete list of books about the September 11 attacks. In the first ten years following the September 11 attacks , dozens of books were published about the attacks or about subtopics such as just the attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York City , and more have been published since.
In the Hulu miniseries, The Looming Tower (2018), Scheuer is the basis for the character of Martin Schmidt (portrayed by Peter Sarsgaard), depicted as one of two people primarily responsible for the lack of intelligence sharing between the CIA and the FBI in the lead-up to 9/11. [citation needed]
The Looming Tower (2018), Hulu's 10-episode television miniseries adaptation of Wright's eponymous 2006 book, in which O'Neill is portrayed by Jeff Daniels;
Alfreda Frances Bikowsky (born 1965) is a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer who has headed the Bin Laden Issue Station and the Global Jihad unit. Bikowsky's identity is not publicly acknowledged by the CIA, but was deduced by independent investigative journalists in 2011. [2]
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11: Winner Pete Earley: Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness: Finalist Thomas E. Ricks: Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq: Finalist 2008 Saul Friedländer: The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945: Winner Allan Brandt: The Cigarette ...