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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
9 Book

A Field Guide to White Supremacy
Kathleen Belew and Ramon Gutierrez
UC Press, 2021
8 Book

From Beirut to Jerusalem
Thomas L. Friedman
FSG, 1995
6 Book

The End of Faith
Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Sam Harris
W.W. Norton, 2004
8 Book

Culture Warlords
My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
Talia Lavin
Legacy Lit, 2020
8 Podcast

What Trump Understood About the War on Terror That Others Missed
Ezra Klein and Spencer Ackerman
The New York Times, 2021
9 Book

The Age of Jihad
Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East
Patrick Cockburn
Verso Books, 2016
8 Book

The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
Seymour M. Hersh
Verso Books, 2016
7 Book

Jihad & Co.
Black Markets and Islamist Power
Aisha Ahmad
Oxford UP, 2017
9 Book

And Then All Hell Broke Loose
Two Decades in the Middle East
Richard Engel
Simon & Schuster, 2016
8 Book

Blood Year
The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism
David Kilcullen
Oxford UP, 2016
9 Book

Cybersecurity and Cyberwar
What Everyone Needs to Know
P.W. Singer and Allan Friedman
Oxford UP, 2014