Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers : Who They Were, Why They Did It - Brossura

Terry McDermott

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ISBN 10: 006058470X ISBN 13: 9780060584702

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 1890

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

Terry McDermott has been a reporter at eight newspapers for twenty-five years, the last seven at the Los Angeles Times, where he is a national correspondent. He has won prizes for his journalism in a number of fields, including foreign affairs, economics, and science.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1890
• ISBN 10: 006058470X
• ISBN 13: 9780060584702
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile