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The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century

bySteve Coll

Centered on the arabian family in the american century, The Bin Ladens shows Steve Coll tracing how individual lives intersect with institutions, ideas, and historical change. The Bin Ladens combines biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context, allowing the evidence to complicate easy judgments and familiar explanations. Seen through the lens of biography & autobiography and history, The Bin Ladens explains not only what happened, but why competing interpretations still matter. By the end, the arabian family in the american century emerges as a layered story of competing motives, unintended results, and choices made under pressure.

Publisher

Penguin Books

Publication date

Mar 31, 2009

Format

Print edition

Pages

671

ISBN

9780143114819