{"product_id":"perfect-soldiers-the-911-hijackers-who-they-were-why-they-did-it-9780060584702","title":"Perfect Soldiers: The 9\/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The definitive book on the 19 men who brought such devastation and terror to this country ... a well-told, meticulously researched cautionary tale.\" -- \u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUsing research undertaken in twenty countries on four continents, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e correspondent Terry McDermott provides gripping, authoritative portraits of the main players in the 9\/11 plot. With brilliant reporting and thoughtful analysis, McDermott brings us a clearer, more nuanced, and in some ways more frightening, understanding of the landmark event of our time.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe attacks of September 11, 2001, were a calamity on a scale few had imagined possible. In their aftermath, we exaggerated the men who perpetrated the attacks, shaping hasty and often mistaken reporting into caricatures we could comprehend--monsters and master criminals equal to the enormity of their crime. In reality, the 9\/11 hijackers were unexceptional men, not much different from countless others. It is this ordinary enemy, not the caricature, that we must understand if we are to have a legitimate hope of defeating terrorism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcDermott, Terry:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eTerry McDermott has been a reporter at eight newspapers for twenty-five years, the last seven at the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e, where he is a national correspondent. He has won prizes for his journalism in a number of fields, including foreign affairs, economics, and science.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50692576444690,"sku":"9780060584702","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7b4dc28f-76f0-41fe-a218-1ff9425e916e.jpg?v=1734127906","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/perfect-soldiers-the-911-hijackers-who-they-were-why-they-did-it-9780060584702","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}