The Bin Ladens : an Arabian family in the American century / Steve Coll.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780143114819 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0143114816 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 671 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2009, c2008.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: New York : Penguin Press, 2008. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [580]-645) and index. |
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Subject: | Bin Laden family. Saudi Arabia > History > 20th century. Bin Laden family. Saudi Arabia > History > 20th century. |
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The Bin Ladens : An Arabian Family in the American Century
Steve Coll is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars and a professor and dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and from 2007 to 2013 was president of the New America Foundation, a public policy institute in Washington, D.C. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker and previously worked for twenty years at The Washington Post , where he received a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1990. He is the author of nine books, including On the Grand Trunk Road , The Bin Ladens , Private Empire , Directorate S ., and The Achilles Trap .