![]() ![]() Zuckoff covered 9/11 and its aftermath for the Boston Globe. Mitchell Zuckoff, Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 (2019). Kirkus Reviews called The Exile as “a tour de force of investigative research.” and Western intelligence services, including by seeking refuge in Iran. The Exile also explore how members of his family and others close to him evaded U.S. Journalists Scott-Clark and Levy detail how bin Laden kept off the radar in the ten years from 9/11 until Navy SEAL Team Six landed at his Abbottabad compound in May 2011. Publisher’s Weekly hailed it as “a tribute to those who died on 9/11 as well as a powerful exploration of collective memory.”Ĭathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy, The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight (2017). It uses essays and photographs of museum exhibits to explore the events of 9/11. If you can’t, read No Day Shall Erase You. If you can visit the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York City, you must. Greenwald (Editor), No Day Shall Erase You: The Story of 9/11 as Told at the National September 11 Memorial Museum (2016). 11 played out everywhere from the International Space Station to the inside of the collapsing World Trade Center towers.”Īlice M. The result, as NPR’s Scott Detrow described it, is “a powerful, graphic narrative of how Sept. Collaborating with oral historian Jenny Pachucki, Graff compiled nearly 500 oral histories with victims’ families, survivors and their families, government officials, and a host of others who felt the impact of that day. Graff is a former editor of Politico who set out to compile the first comprehensive oral history of 9/11. Graff, The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (2019). Kirkus Reviews praised it as “an impeccably researched history of ‘diplomacy at the highest levels of government in Washington, Islamabad, and Kabul.’” In Directorate S, Coll focuses on the post-9/11 efforts of the United States to combat the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Coll, a staff writer at The New Yorker and dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, made the last list with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, which looked at how Afghanistan helped give rise to al-Qaeda before 9/11. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan (2018). The initial approach was mostly myopic and later tragically helped boost the jihadist movement.” Princeton University Professor Bernard Heykal concluded that “Bergen is particularly perceptive about the American government’s reaction to the rise of bin Laden and the jihadist phenomenon. In writing bin Laden’s biography, Bergen draws on both interviews with those closest to him and on documents that Navy SEAL Team Six seized in the raid on bin Laden’s secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Bergen is a journalist who started covering Osama bin Laden long before 9/11. Peter Bergen, The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden (2021). The New York Times’s reviewer wrote that Al-Khatahtbeh offers “an account that should both enlighten and shame Americans who read it.” Her memoir tells what it was like to grow up as a Muslim American child in a post-9/11 America rampant with anti-Muslim sentiment. Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, the founder and CEO of the media site Muslim Girl, was nine years-old and living in East Brunswick, New Jersey on September 11, 2001. In alphabetical order, here are our seven recommendations:Īmani Al-Khatahtbeh, Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age (2016). That’s why terrific books like Gayle Lemmon’s Ashley’s War and Phil Gordon’s Losing the Long Game don’t appear below. Second, to avoid any conflicts of interest and the need to pick among friends, books written by our CFR colleagues, past or present, or by past co-authors, are off limits. ![]() First, the books had to be about the 9/11 attacks or the aftermath. In choosing seven more books, we stuck to the two rules that guided the earlier list. A decade later, it’s time to update the list. Ten years ago, I wrote a blog post naming what I saw as the Seven Best Books on 9/11 and the U.S. To start things off, we’re providing book recommendations. We’ll be looking at movies, documentaries, podcasts, and online exhibits among other things. In the weeks leading up to the anniversary of 9/11, my colleague Anna Shortridge and I will be recommending sources for learning more about 9/11 and its consequences. As this week’s events in Afghanistan show, the ripples of 9/11 remain with us. The attacks devastated the lives of the victims’ families, and forever altered the course of U.S. The ages of victims ranged from two to eighty-five. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attacks. Next month marks the twentieth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, DC. ![]()
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