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Terrorism

September 11, 2001, was just a single point in an ongoing trend. Terrorism takes many different forms: religious fundamentalism, political extremism from the right or the left, bombings, shootings, stabbings, or cyber attacks on critical infrastructure.These summaries will tell you all about it.

Summaries

10 Book

The Only Plane in the Sky

An Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff
Avid Reader Press, 2019
8 Book
Thomas L. Friedman
FSG, 1995
8 Book
Seymour M. Hersh
Verso Books, 2016
9 Book

Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

What Everyone Needs to Know
P.W. Singer and Allan Friedman
Oxford UP, 2014
8 Video
Economist Films
Economist Films, 2017
9 Book

Treacherous Alliance

The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the U.S.
Trita Parsi
Yale UP, 2007
9 Book

The Looming Tower

Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright
Knopf, 2006
9 Book

Cobra II

The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor
Pantheon Books, 2006
8 Book
Michael Scheuer
Oxford UP, 2011
8 Book

Fatal System Error

The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who are Bringing Down the Internet
Joseph Menn
Public Affairs, 2010
8 Book

Fundamentalism

A Very Short Introduction
Malise Ruthven
Oxford UP, 2007
8 Article
Brendan I. Koerner
Wired, 2016