Peter Bergen is the author or editor of nine books, including three New York Times bestsellers and four Washington Post best nonfiction books of the year. A Vice President at New America, Bergen is a professor at Arizona State University and a national security analyst for CNN. He has testified before congressional committees eighteen times about national security issues and has held teaching positions at Harvard and Johns Hopkins University.
"Highly illuminating. Peter Bergen, an experienced reporter as well
as an academic, stands out among terrorism 'experts' for his
breadth of experience and clear-headedness. Bergen has done a fine
job of researching and compiling a very wide range of oral
testimony. What emerges is a fascinating sequence of oblique-angled
perspectives, casting light on the underlying motives of bin Laden
and his companions and revealing some of his less-remarked but
significant adventures." -- Max Rodenbeck, The New York Review of
Books
"A coherent and dramatic account. How appropriate that the short
biographies of those cited are gathered under the rubric 'Dramatis
Personae.' This is a compelling story well told. There is plenty of
evil, but thanks to Bergen's ability to bring out the human
dimensions of the individuals involved, the banality of evil is not
lacking either." -- L. Carl Brown, Foreign Affairs
"Peter L. Bergen has written what will long be the 'go-to' resource
. . . a chronological record of what is known about bin Laden from
his birth in 1957 to 2005, assembled by stringing together
statements from bin Laden and those who taught him, met him, worked
with him, or interviewed him over those forty-eight years." --
Richard A. Clarke, The Washington Post
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