The Bin Ladens by Steve Coll (2008, Hardcover)
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Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition.
Author: Steve Coll
Edition: 1 Publisher: Penguin Pr
ISBN-10: 1594201641 Subject: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-13: 9781594201646 Topic: --
Format: Hardcover Language: English
Publication Year: 2008 Special Attributes: --
Detailed item info
Synopsis
This well-researched and high-interest family portrait reveals the bin Laden family's extensive business ties to America, and how they rubbed shoulders with the rich and famous. Journalist Stephen Coll provides portraits of Salem bin Laden, a wheeling and dealing investor who loved America's pop culture, and the Yemeni businessman Mohamed, whose business interests in the Middle East declined before his untimely death in an airplane accident. Watching it all is Mohamed's son, a young and impressionable Osama bin Laden. THE BIN LADENS was selected as a finalist for both the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in the Biography category.
Size
Length: 671 pages
Height: 9.5 in.
Width: 6.5 in.
Thickness: 1.5 in.
Weight: 35.2 oz.
Publisher's Note
A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the best-selling Ghost Wars traces the Bin Laden family's rise to power and privilege, describes the diverse lifestyles of the generation to which Osama bin Laden belongs, and discusses their attempts to recover from the effects of September 11.
Industry reviews
"Urgent and important reading."
(03/15/2008)
"Beneath the clutter, one discerns an engrossing portrait of a family torn between tradition and modernity, conformism and self-actualization, and desperately in search of its soul."
(03/31/2008)
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