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The Day That Shook America - A Concise History of 9/11 (Hardcover)
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The Day That Shook America - A Concise History of 9/11 (Hardcover)
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On September 11, 2001, author J. Samuel Walker was far from home
when he learned of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon. Stricken by incredulity and anxiety, he found the
phone lines jammed when he tried to call his wife, who worked in
downtown Washington, DC. At the time and ever since, Walker, like
many of his fellow Americans, was and remains troubled by questions
about the disaster that occurred on 9/11. What were the purposes of
the attacks? Why did US intelligence agencies and the Defense
Department, with annual budgets in the hundreds of billions of
dollars, fail to protect the country from a small band of
terrorists who managed to hijack four airliners and take the lives
of nearly three thousand American citizens? What did responsible
government agencies and officials know about Al-Qaeda and why did
they not do more to head off the threat it posed? What were
American policies toward terrorism, especially under Presidents
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and why did they fall so far short
of defending against a series of attacks? Finally, was the tragedy
of 9/11 preventable? These are the most important questions that
The Day That Shook America: A Concise History of 9/11 tries to
answer. The Day That Shook America offers a long perspective and
draws on recently opened records to provide an in-depth analysis of
the approaches taken by the Clinton and Bush administrations toward
terrorism in general and Al-Qaeda in particular. It also delivers
arresting new details on the four hijackings and the collapse of
the Twin Towers. J. Samuel Walker covers both the human drama and
the public policy dimensions of one of the most important events in
all of US history, and he does so in a way that is both
comprehensive and concise.
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