Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11

by Gerald L. Posner

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Examines the terrorist attacks of September 11th and why the disaster was not prevented, discussing how breakdowns in intelligence and political infighting allowed terrorists to carry out an unprecedented attack on American soil.

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Gerald L. Posner

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Gerald Posner received a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975 and a law degree from Hastings Law School in 1978. He was one of the youngest attorneys ever hired by the Wall Street law firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore. He co-founded the New York law firm Posner and Ferrara. He is the author show more of more than ten books including Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, and God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Finalist – Current Interest – 2003)

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New York Times bestseller (Nonfiction – 2003)

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People/Characters: Osama bin Laden; Bill Clinton; George W. Bush; Ayman al-Zawahiri; Omar Abdel Rahman
Important places: Afghanistan; Saudi Arabia; Sudan; USA
Important events: 9/11 Terrorist Attacks, Twin Towers and Pentagon
Dedication: To those few who tried to warn us

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