The looming tower : (Record no. 125998)

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control field 152545467
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control field OCoLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20190801095539.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 060227s2007 nyuabcf b 001 0 eng c
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2006041032
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780375414862
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 037541486X
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)152545467
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Original cataloging agency DLC
Transcribing agency STF
Modifying agency EXB
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number HV6432.7
Item number .W75 2006
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wright, Lawrence,
Dates associated with a name 1947-
9 (RLIN) 16129
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The looming tower :
Remainder of title Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11 /
Statement of responsibility, etc Lawrence Wright
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Alfred A. Knopf,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2007
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 469 p., [16] p. of plates :
Other physical details ill., map, ports. ;
Dimensions 25 cm
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note leisure reading
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-438) and index
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note The martyr -- The sporting club -- The founder -- Change -- The miracles -- The base -- Return of the hero -- Paradise -- The Silicon Valley -- Paradise lost -- The prince of darkness -- The boy spies -- Hijira -- Going operational -- Bread and water -- "Now it begins" -- The new millennium -- Boom -- The big wedding -- Revelations
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. The Looming Tower achieves an unprecedented level of intimacy and insight by telling the story through the interweaving lives of four men: the two leaders of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri; the FBI's counterterrorism chief, John O'Neill; and the former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal. As these lives unfold, we see revealed: the crosscurrents of modern Islam that helped to radicalize Zawahiri and bin Laden . . . the birth of al-Qaeda and its unsteady development into an organization capable of the American embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and the attack on the USS Cole . . . O'Neill's heroic efforts to track al-Qaeda before 9/11, and his tragic death in the World Trade towers . . . Prince Turki's transformation from bin Laden's ally to his enemy . . . the failures of the FBI, CIA, and NSA to share intelligence that might have prevented the 9/11 attacks. The Looming Tower broadens and deepens our knowledge of these signal events by taking us behind the scenes. Here is Sayyid Qutb, founder of the modern Islamist movement, lonely and despairing as he meets Western culture up close in 1940s America; the privileged childhoods of bin Laden and Zawahiri; family life in the al-Qaeda compounds of Sudan and Afghanistan; O'Neill's high-wire act in balancing his all-consuming career with his equally entangling personal life-he was living with three women, each of them unaware of the others' existence-and the nitty-gritty of turf battles among U.S. intelligence agencies
610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Qaida (Organization)
9 (RLIN) 16121
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
9 (RLIN) 7724
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Terrorism
General subdivision Government policy
Geographic subdivision United States
9 (RLIN) 14928
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Intelligence service
Geographic subdivision United States
9 (RLIN) 16130
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  Available Dewey Decimal Classification     Martha's Vineyard High School Library Martha's Vineyard High School Library 08/01/2019   973.931/WRI 39844400047771 08/03/2019 27.50 08/01/2019 Book