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The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden (Hardcover)
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The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden (Hardcover)
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The world's leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the
first time the definitive biography of a man who set the course of
American foreign policy for the 21st century, and whose ideological
heirs we continue to battle today. In The Rise and Fall of Osama
bin Laden, Peter Bergen provides the first reevaluation of the man
responsible for precipitating America's long wars with al-Qaeda and
its descendants, capturing bin Laden in all the dimensions of his
life: as a family man, as a zealot, as a battlefield commander, as
a terrorist leader, and as a fugitive. The book sheds light on his
many contradictions: he was the son of a billionaire, yet insisted
his family live like paupers. He adored his wives and children,
depending on two of his wives, both of whom had PhDs, to make
important strategic decisions. Yet he also brought ruin to his
family. He was fanatically religious, yet willing to kill thousands
of civilians in the name of Islam. He inspired deep loyalty yet, in
the end, his bodyguards turned against him. And while he inflicted
the most lethal act of mass murder in United States history, he
failed to achieve any of his strategic goals. The lasting image we
have of bin Laden in his final years is of an aging man with a
graying beard watching old footage of himself, just another dad
flipping through the channels with his remote. In the end, bin
Laden died in a squalid suburban compound, far from the front lines
of his holy war. And yet despite that unheroic denouement, his
ideology lives on. Thanks to exclusive interviews with family
members and associates, and documents unearthed only recently,
Bergen's portrait of Osama will reveal for the first time who he
really was and why he continues to inspire a new generation of
jihadists.
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