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The Looming Tower
This episode unpacks the human and systemic failures that allowed a distant threat to coalesce into the devastating reality of 9/11, revealing how we often misread the signals of impending catastrophe.
“This episode unpacks the human and systemic failures that allowed a distant threat to coalesce into the devastating reality of 9/11, revealing how we often misread the signals of impending catastrophe.”
— Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower
Intelligence failures, Terrorism, Geopolitics, History
If you've ever felt the unease of unheeded warnings, this will illuminate how seemingly distant threats can coalesce into devastating realities, and this will help you see what to do next.
Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose meticulous investigative reporting and deep understanding of complex geopolitical forces reveal the human stories behind global events, making him uniquely qualified to trace the path to 9/11.