Politics · 21 min
The Looming Tower
By Lawrence Wright
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.
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Politics
Duration
21 min
What it is about
Intelligence failures, Terrorism, Geopolitics, History
Who it is for
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.
The author
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.
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