The Bin Ladens
Autor Steve Collen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mar 2009
In this gripping account prizewinning journalist Steve Coll has interviewed those closest to the family who rose from Yemeni peasants to jetsetting millionaires in two generations. In doing so, he reveals a Saudi Arabia torn between religious purity and the temptations of the West, telling a story of oil, money, power, patronage and dangerous cultural extremes.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141036489
ISBN-10: 0141036486
Pagini: 704
Ilustrații: 16 pp b/w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 197 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141036486
Pagini: 704
Ilustrații: 16 pp b/w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 197 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Steve Coll is most recently the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Ghost Wars. He also won a 1990 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. He covered Afghanistan as the Washington Post's South Asia bureau chief between 1989 and 1992 and was the Post's managing editor from 1998 to 2004. He is now a staff writer for the New Yorker. He is the author of five books, including On the Grand Trunk Road and The Taking of Getty Oil. He lives with his wife and three children in Maryland.
Recenzii
"A fascinating panorama . . . about a man and his family [and] the powerful impact they have made on our times."
-The Washington Post
"Riveting . . . the most psychologically detailed portrait of the brutal 9/11 mastermind yet."
-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Stunningly researched and grippingly told . . . [The Bin Ladens] ought to be read by anyone who really wants to understand the origins of the current crisis."
-Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times
-The Washington Post
"Riveting . . . the most psychologically detailed portrait of the brutal 9/11 mastermind yet."
-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Stunningly researched and grippingly told . . . [The Bin Ladens] ought to be read by anyone who really wants to understand the origins of the current crisis."
-Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Coll continues where "Ghost Wars" leaves off, shedding new light on one of the most elusive families of the 21st century.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Coll continues where "Ghost Wars" leaves off, shedding new light on one of the most elusive families of the 21st century.