Osama Bin Laden |
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| Author:
| Scheuer, Michael |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-973866-3 |
| Publication Date: | May 2011 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $28.14AUD $37.95 |
Book Description:
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Osama bin Laden was and remains America's most formidable and implacable enemy. And yet no one has written a serious assessment of his influence over world events in the last decade. Available biographies depict him as crazed and marginal--or simply as a gangster, fanatic, or nihilist. These accounts, Michael Scheuer believes, have contributed to a widespread and dangerous denial of his impact and significance. In Osama bin Laden Scheuer provides a corrective: an objective and...
More DescriptionOsama bin Laden was and remains America's most formidable and implacable enemy. And yet no one has written a serious assessment of his influence over world events in the last decade. Available biographies depict him as crazed and marginal--or simply as a gangster, fanatic, or nihilist. These accounts, Michael Scheuer believes, have contributed to a widespread and dangerous denial of his impact and significance. In Osama bin Laden Scheuer provides a corrective: an objective and authoritative portrait of bin Laden that will show him to be a man of remarkable leadership skills, strategic genius, and considerable rhetorical abilities. For ten years, he has eluded capture despite being the most hunted man in the world.