The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize this week for general nonfiction. "A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11", the publisher calls this book "a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright’s remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States."The Pulitzer Prize is the American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievement, and musical composition.
In addition to the Pulitzer prize, The Looming Tower was a National Book Award finalist and a New York Time's Editor's Choice. The book also received the Gelber Prize that honours the excellence of those who think and write about the local and global forces of change in international relations and the Lukas prize for the best American nonfiction writing. This book is available in the Goodwin Library.
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