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May Book Club - The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9-11 by Lawrence Wright

Looming Tower book coverThe May Book Club reading will be The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright. Meet on June 1st at the Praters home (2000 Malvern) at 7:00 pm. Beverages provided; bring snacks to share.

A New York Times book review reads (in part):

Mr. Wright’s book, based on more than 500 interviews — ranging from Mr. bin Laden’s best friend in college, Jamal Khalifa, to Yosri Fouda, a reporter for Al Jazeera, to Richard A. Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief — gives the reader a searing view of the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, a view that is at once wrenchingly intimate and boldly sweeping in its historical perspective.

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The book also suggests that the events of Sept. 11 were not inevitable. Rather, bad luck, the confluence of particular decisions and chance encounters, dithering on the part of United States officials and a series of absurd turf wars between the C.I.A. and F.B.I. all contributed to Al Qaeda’s success in pulling off its nefarious plans that sunny September day.

June 1st, 2015 7:00 PM
2000 Malvern Rd
Upper Arlington, OH
UNITED STATES

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