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The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden (Paperback)
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The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden (Paperback)
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List price R417
Loot Price R383
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The world's leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the
first time the "riveting" (The New York Times) 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 Bergan provides the
first reevaluation of the man responsible for precipitating
America's long war with al-Qaeda and its decedents, 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 his two wives, both
of whom had PhDs, to make critical strategic decisions. Yet, he
also brought ruin to his family. He was fanatically religious but
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. In his final years, the lasting image we have of
bin Laden is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old
footage of himself, just as 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 "comprehensive,
authoritative, and compelling" (H.R. McMaster, author of
Dereliction of Duty and Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free
World) portrait of Osama bin Laden reveals for the first time who
he really was and why he continues to inspire a new generation of
jihadists.
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