BOOKS FOR
UNDERSTANDING
THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS
AND THEIR AFTERMATH
A list of selected books is currently available at the New York Society Library regarding Afghanistan, the Taliban, terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, and biological weapons. This list will be updated regularly with new acquisitions.
| AUTHOR |
TITLE |
CALL # |
| Akbar, M. J | Shade of swords: Jihad and the conflict between Islam and Christianity | 297 A |
| Alexander, Yonah | Usama bin Laden's al-Qaida: profile of a terrorist network | 303.6 A |
| Ali, Tariq | Clash of fundamentalisms: crusades, Jihads and modernity | 297 A |
| Allen, Charles | God's terrorists: the Wahhabi cult and the hidden roots of modern Jihad | 297 A |
| Anderson, Jon Lee | Lion's grave: dispatches from Afghanistan | 958 A |
| Ansary, Tamim | West of Kabul, East of New York: an Afghan American story | 92 A6173 A |
| Arkin, William M | Code names: deciphering US military plans, programs, and operations in the 9/11 world | 355.0973 A |
| Armstrong, Karen | Battle for God | 201 A |
| Armstrong, Karen | Islam: a short history | 297 A |
| Bacevich, A. J | New American militarism: how Americans are seduced by war | 355 B |
| Baer, Robert | See no evil: the true story of a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism | 92 B1410B |
| Barber, Benjamin R. | Jihad vs. McWorld | 909.82 B |
| Beinart, Peter | Good fight: why liberals--and only liberals--can win the War on Terror and make America great again | 973.930 B |
| Benard, Cheryl | Veiled courage: inside the Afghan women's resistance | 305.4 B |
| Benjamin, Daniel | Age of sacred terror | 303.6 B |
| Benjamin, Daniel | Next attack: the failure of the war on terror and a strategy for getting it right | 303.6 B |
| Bennett, William J | Why we fight: moral clarity and the War on Terrorism | 303.6 B |
| Bentley, Eric | Theatre of war: comments on 32 occasions, | 809.2 B |
| Bergen, Peter L. | Holy war, Inc.: inside the secret world of Osama bin Laden | 303.6 B |
| Bergen, Peter L. | Osama bin Laden I know: an oral history of al-Qaeda's leader | 303.6 B |
| Bernstein, Richard | Out of the blue: the story of September 11, 2001, from Jihad to Ground Zero | 973.9302 B |
| Berry, Wendell | In the presence of fear: three essays for a changed world | 303.6 B |
| Bin Laden, Osama | Messages to the world: the statements of Osama Bin Laden | 958 B |
| Blankley, Tony | West's last chance: will we win the clash of civilizations? | 909 B |
| Bloom, Mia | Dying to kill: the allure of suicide terror | 303.6 B |
| Bodansky, Yossef | Bin Laden: the man who declared war on America | 92 B614 B |
| Bodansky, Yossef | High cost of peace: how Washington's Middle East policy left America vulnerable to terrorism | 327.56 B |
| Borovik, Artem | Hidden war: a Russian journalist's account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan | 92 B7369B |
| Botte, John | Aftermath : unseen 9/11 photos by a New York City cop | 973.9302 B |
| Brill, Steven | After: how America confronted the September 12 era | 973.9302 B |
| Brisard, Jean-Charles | Forbidden truth: U.S.-Taliban secret oil diplomacy and the failed hunt for Bin Laden | 327.73 B |
| Bronson, Rachel | Thicker than oil: America's uneasy partnership with Saudi Arabia | 327.73 B |
| Carr, Caleb | Lessons of terror: a history of warfare against civilians : why it has always failed, and why it will fail again | 303.6 C |
| Chaffetz, David | A journey through Afghanistan: a memorial | 915.8 C |
| Chang, Nancy | Silencing political dissent | 323.4 C |
| Chomsky, Noam | 9/11/2006 | 973.9302 C |
| Chomsky, Noam | Culture of terrorism | 327.73 C |
| Chomsky, Noam | Pirates & emperors: international terrorism in the real world | 303.6 C |
| Clark, Wesley K | Winning modern wars: Iraq, terrorism, and the American empire | 956 C |
| Clarke, Richard A | Against all enemies: inside America's war on terror | 303.6 C |
| Cohen-Tanugi, Laurent | An alliance at risk: the United States and Europe since September 11 | 327 C |
| Cole, David | Enemy aliens: double standards and constitutional freedoms in the war on terrorism | 323.6 C |
| Cooley, John K. | Unholy wars: Afghanistan, America and international terrorism | 958 C |
| Coughlin, Con | American ally: Tony Blair and the war on terror | 327.42 C |
| De Becker, Gavin | Fear less: real truth about risk, safety, and security in a time of terrorism | 303.6 D |
| Dennis, Anthony J | Rise of the Islamic empire and the threat to the West | 297 D |
| Dershowitz, Alan M | Why terrorism works: understanding the threat, responding to the challenge | 303.6 D |
| Didion, Joan | Fixed ideas: American since 9.11 | 973.930 D |
| Dwyer, Jim | 102 minutes: the untold story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers | 973.9302 D |
| Eagleton, Terry | Holy terror | 303.6 E |
| Edwards, David B | Before Taliban: genealogies of the Afghan jihad | 958 E |
| Elliot, Jason | An unexpected light: travels in Afghanistan | 915.8 E |
| Elshtain, Jean Bethke | Just war against terror: the burden of American power in a violent world | 303.6 E |
| Emerson, Steven | American jihad: the terrorists living among us | 303.6 E |
| Esposito, John L | Islam: the straight path | 297 E |
| Esposito, John L | Islamic threat: myth or reality? | 297 E |
| Esposito, John L | Unholy war: terror in the name of Islam | 303.6 E |
| Ewans, Martin | Afghanistan: a short history of its people and politics | 915.8 E |
| Exum, Andrew | This man's army: a soldier's story from the front lines of the war on terrorism | 958 E |
| Fallaci, Oriana | Rage and the pride | 303.6 F |
| Feinberg, Kenneth R | What is life worth?: the unprecedented effort to compensate the victims of 9/11 | 362.8 F |
| Feldman, Noah | After Jihad: America and the struggle for Islamic democracy | 327.73 F |
| Firestone, Reuven | Jihad: the origin of holy war in Islam | 297 F |
| Fisk, Robert | Great war for civilisation: the conquest of the Middle East | 956 F |
| Fletcher, George P | Romantics at war: glory and guilt in the age of terrorism | 341.6 F |
| Fontana, Marian | A widow's walk | 973.9302 F |
| Fregosi, Paul | Jihad in the West: Muslim conquests from the 7th to the 21st centuries | 297 F |
| Friedman, George | America's secret war: inside the hidden worldwide struggle between America and its enemies | 327.73 F |
| Friedman, Thomas L | Longitudes and attitudes: exploring the world after September 11 | 303.6 F |
| Frist, William H | When every moment counts: what you need to know about bioterrorism from the Senate's only doctor | 614 F |
| Frum, David | An end to evil: how to win the war on terror | 303.6 F |
| Fukuyama, Francis | America at the crossroads: democracy, power, and the neoconservative legacy | 327.73 F |
| Gerges, Fawaz A. | America and political Islam: clash of cultures or clash of interests? | 327.73 G |
| Gerges, Fawaz A. | Journey of the jihadist: inside Muslim militancy | 297 G |
| Gertz, Bill | Breakdown: how America's intelligence failures led to September 11 | 973.9302 G |
| Gohari, M. J | Taliban: ascent to power | 958 G |
| Gonzalez, Juan | Fallout: the environmental consequences of the World Trade Center collapse | 973.9302 G |
| Goodson, Larry P | Afghanistan's endless war: state failure, regional politics, and the rise of the Taliban | 958 G |
| Gordon, Matthew | Islam: origins, practices, holy texts, sacred persons, sacred places | 297 G |
| Griffin, Michael | Reaping the whirlwind: the Taliban movement in Afghanistan | 958 G |
| Guillemin, Jeanne | Anthrax: the investigation of a deadly outbreak | 614 G |
| Gunaratna, Rohan | Inside Al Qaeda: global network of terror | 303.6 G |
| Haass, Richard | Opportunity: America's moment to alter history's course | 327.73 H |
| Habeck, Mary R | Knowing the enemy: jihadist ideology and the War on Terror | 297 H |
| Halberstam, David, | Firehouse | 920 H157 F |
| Halliday, Fred | Two hours that shook the world: September 11, 2001 : causes and consequences | 973.9302 H |
| Hanson, Victor Davis. | An autumn of war: what America learned from September 11 and the war on terrorism | 303.6 H |
| Hanson, Victor Davis | Between war and peace: lessons from Afghanistan to Iraq | 973.930 H |
| Hentoff, Nat | War on the Bill of Rights--and the gathering resistance | 323.4 H |
| Heymann, Philip B | Terrorism and America: a commonsense strategy for a democratic society | 303.6 H |
| Hitchens, Christopher | Regime change | 956 H |
| Hoffman, Bruce | Inside terrorism | 364 H |
| Huntington, Samuel P. | Clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order | 909.82 H |
| Jacobson, Sidney | The 9/11 report : a graphic adaptation | 973.9302 J |
| Jacquard, Roland | In the name of Osama bin Laden: global terrorism & the bin Laden brotherhood | 92 B614J |
| Johnson, Chalmers A | Blowback: the costs and consequences of American empire | 327.73 J |
| Josyph, Peter | Liberty Street : encounters at Ground Zero | 974.71 J |
| Juergensmeyer, Mark | Terror in the mind of God: the global rise of religious violence | 364.1 J |
| Kalman, Maira | Fireboat: the heroic adventures of the John J. Harvey | Juv. 974.71 K |
| Kaplan, Robert D. | Soldiers of God: with Islamic warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan | 958 K |
| Kepel, Gilles | Jihad: the trail of political Islam | 297 K |
| Kessler, Ronald | CIA at war: inside the secret campaign against terror | 327.12 K |
| Kolko, Gabriel | Another century of war? | 327.73 K |
| Kressel, Neil Jeffrey | Mass hate: the global rise of genocide and terror | 364.1 K |
| Kux, Dennis | United States and Pakistan, 1947-2000: disenchanted allies | 327.73 K |
| Lake, Anthony | 6 nightmares: real threats in a dangerous world and how America can meet them | 363.3 L |
| Lamb, Christina | Sewing circles of Herat: a personal voyage through Afghanistan | 915.8 L |
| Langewiesche, William | American ground: unbuilding the World Trade Center | 973.9302 L |
| Laqueur, Walter | New terrorism: fanaticism and the arms of mass destruction | 364 L |
| Latifa | My forbidden face: growing up under the Taliban : a young woman's story | 92 L356L |
| Ledeen, Michael Arthur | War against the terror masters: why it happened, where we are now, how we'll win. | 303.6 L |
| Levitt, Matthew | Hamas: politics, charity, and terrorism in the service of jihad | 956.9 L |
| Lewis, Bernard | Islam and the West | 303.4 L |
| Lewis, Bernard | Shaping of the modern Middle East | 956.9 L |
| Lewis, Bernard | What went wrong?: Western impact and Middle Eastern response | 956.9 L |
| Lifton, Robert Jay | Destroying the world to save it: Aum Shinrikyo, apocalyptic violence, and the the new global terrorism | 364.1 L |
| Little, Douglas | American orientalism: the United States and the Middle East since 1945 | 327.73 L |
| Longman, Jere | Among the heroes: United Flight 93 and the passengers and crew who fought back | 973.9302 L |
| Maalouf, Amin | In the name of identity: violence and the need to belong | 302.3 M |
| Mackey, Sandra | Reckoning: Iraq and the legacy of Saddam Hussein | 956 M |
| Mandelbaum, Michael | Case for Goliath: how America acts as the world's government in the twenty-first century | 327.73 M |
| Margolis, Eric S | War at the top of the world: the struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Tibet | 950 M |
| Marsden, Peter | Taliban: war, religion and the new order in Afghanistan | 958 M |
| Matinuddin, Kamal | Taliban phenomenon: Afghanistan, 1994-1997 | 958 M |
| McAlister, Melani | Epic encounters: culture, media, and U.S. interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 | 327.56 M |
| McDermott, Terry | Perfect soldiers: the hijackers : who they were, why they did it | 303.6 M |
| McNamara, Robert S. | Wilson's ghost: reducing the risk of conflict, killing, and catastrophe in the 21st century | 327.73 M |
| Mead, Walter Russell | Power, terror, peace, and war: America's grand strategy in a world at risk | 327.73 M |
| Meyer, Karl Ernest | Tournament of shadows: the great game and the race for empire in Central Asia | 958 M |
| Miller, John | Cell: inside the 9/11 plot and why the CIA and FBI failed to stop it | |
| Miller, Judith | Germs: biological weapons and America's secret war | 358.3 M |
| Miniter, Richard | Losing Bin Laden: how Bill Clinton's failures unleashed global terror | 973.929 M |
| Miniter, Richard | Shadow war: the untold story of how Bush is winning the War on Terror | 303.6 M |
| Mortenson, Greg | Three cups of tea: one man's mission to fight terrorism and build nations-- one school at a time | 370.19 M |
| Mylroie, Laurie | Study of revenge: the first World Trade Center attack and Saddam Hussein's war against America | 303.6 M |
| Naftali, Timothy J | Blind spot: the secret history of American counterterrorism | 303.6 N |
| Naipaul, V. S | Among the believers: an Islamic journey | 297 N |
| Naipaul, V. S | Beyond belief:;Islamic excursions among the converted peoples | 297 N |
| Nasr, Seyyed Hossein | Heart of Islam: enduring values for humanity | 297 N |
| Netanyahu, Binyamin | Fighting terrorism: how democracies can defeat domestic and international terrorism | 363.1 N |
| Nissenson, Hugh | Days of awe: a novel | |
| Nobel, Philip | Sixteen acres: architecture and the outrageous struggle for the future of Ground Zero | 720.973 N |
| Noonan, Peggy | A heart, a cross, and a flag: America today | 973.930 N |
| Palmer, Monte | At the heart of terror: Islam, Jihadists, and America's war on terrorism | 297 P |
| Peters, Ralph | Beyond terror: strategy in a changing world | 303.6 P |
| Picciotto, Richard | Last man down: a firefighter's story of survival and escape from the World Trade Center | 973.9302 P |
| Pillar, Paul R. | Terrorism and U.S. foreign policy | 327.73 P |
| Pipes, Daniel | Militant Islam reaches America | 297 P |
| Pollack, Kenneth M | Threatening storm: the case for invading Iraq | 956 P |
| Posner, Gerald L | Why America slept: the failure to prevent 9/11 | 973.9302 P |
| Raban, Jonathan | My holy war: dispatches from the home front | 973.930 R |
| Rashid, Ahmed | Jihad: the rise of militant Islam in Central Asia | 958 R |
| Rashid, Ahmed | Taliban | AC 948 R |
| Rashid, Ahmed | Taliban: militant Islam, oil, and fundamentalism in Central Asia | 958 R |
| Reeve, Simon | New jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama Bin Laden and the future of terrorism | 364.1 R |
| Roy, Olivier | Afghanistan: from holy war to civil war | 958 R |
| Roy, Olivier | Failure of political Islam | 322 R |
| Roy, Olivier | Islam and resistance in Afghanistan | 915.8 R |
| Rubin, Barnett R | Fragmentation of Afghanistan: state formation and collapse in the international system | 958 R |
| Rubin, Barnett R | Search for peace in Afghanistan: from buffer state to failed state | 958 R |
| Rubin, Barry M | Tragedy of the Middle East | 956.9 R |
| Runciman, David | Politics of good intentions: history, fear, and hypocrisy in the new world order | 973.930 R |
| Ruthven, Malise | A fury for God: the Islamist attack on America | 303.6 R |
| Said, Edward W | From Oslo to Iraq and the road map | 327.73 S |
| Sardar, Ziauddin | Why do people hate America? | 973.930 S |
| Schwartz, Stephen | Two faces of Islam: the house of Saud from tradition to terror | 297 S |
| Scruton, Roger | West and the rest: globalization and the terrorist threat | 327 S |
| Simon, Jeffrey D | Terrorist trap: America's experience with terrorism | 363.3 S |
| Smith, Dennis | Report from ground zero | 973.9302 S |
| Soros, George | Age of fallibility: the consequences of the war on terror | 973.930 S |
| Spencer, Robert | Islam unveiled: disturbing questions about the world's fastest-growing faith | 297 S |
| Spiegelman, Art | In the shadow of no towers | 973.9302 S |
| Stark, Rodney | One true God: historical consequences of monotheism | 291 S |
| Stern, Jessica | Ultimate terrorists | 303.6 S |
| Stewart, James B | Heart of a soldier: a story of love, heroism, and September 11th | 92 R433 S |
| Suskind, Ron | One percent doctrine: deep inside America's pursuit of its enemies since 9/11 | 973.930 S |
| Taheri, Amir | Holy terror: inside the world of Islamic terrorism | 303.6 T |
| Teicher, Howard | Twin pillars to Desert Storm: America's flawed vision in the Middle East from Nixon to Bush | 327.73 T |
| Tucker, Jonathan B | Scourge: the once and future threat of smallpox | 616.9 T |
| Vidal, Gore | Perpetual war for perpetual peace: how we got to be so hated | 301.15 V |
| Weaver, Mary Anne | A portrait of Egypt: a journey through the world of militant Islam | 297 W |
| Williams, Rowan | Writing in the dust: after September 11 | 242 W |
| Woodward, Bob | Bush at war | 973.930 W |
| Woodward, Bob | Plan of attack | 973.930 W |
| Yee, James | For God and country: faith and patriotism under fire | |
| Yergin, Daniel | Prize: the epic quest for oil, money, and power | 338.2 Y |
| Zinn, Howard | Terrorism and war | 303.6 Z |
| 110 stories: New York writes after September 11 | 820.8 O |
| 9/11 investigations: | 973.9302 N |
| A Just response: the Nation on terrorism, democracy, and September 11, 2001 | 303.6 J |
| Above hallowed ground: a photographic record of September 11, 2001 | 973.9302 N |
| After the World Trade Center: rethinking New York City | 711 A |
| Age of terror: America and the world after September 11 | 303.6 A |
| Biological weapons: limiting the threat | 358.3 B |
| Collateral language: a user's guide to America's new war | 973.930 C |
| Critical views of September 11: analyses from around the world | 973.9302 C |
| Day our world changed: children's art of 9/11 | 973.9302 D |
| Fundamentalism reborn?: Afghanistan and the Taliban | 958 F |
| How did this happen?: terrorism and the new war | 303.6 H |
| Imperial hubris: why the West is losing the war on terror | 303.6 I |
| Inside 9-11: what really happened | 303.6 I |
| It's a free country: personal freedom in America after September 11 | 323.4 I |
| Lost liberties: Ashcroft and the assault on personal freedom | 323.4 L |
| Media and the war on terrorism | 070.4 M |
| New York September 11 | 973.9302 N |
| One year later: the fiscal impact of 9/11 on New York City | 917.471 N CS |
| Origins of terrorism: psychologies, ideologies, theologies, states of mind | 303.6 O |
| Oxford history of Islam | 297 O |
| Portraits, 9/11/01: the collected "portraits of grief" from the New York times | 973.9302 P |
| Restoring faith: America's religious leaders answer terror with hope | 252 R |
| September 11: an oral history | 973.9302 S |
| September 11 photo project | 973.9302 S |
| Striking terror: America's new war | 303.6 S |
| War on our freedoms: civil liberties in an age of terrorism | 323.4 W |
| What we saw | DVD 973.9302 W |
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