The Bin Ladens
An Arabian Family in the American Century. Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award 2009
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Bin Ladens rose from poverty to privilage as official building contractors of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina; they loyally served generations of kings and princes in the Saudi royal family - until one of their number changed history.
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The Bin Ladens rose from poverty to privilage as official building contractors of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina; they loyally served generations of kings and princes in the Saudi royal family - until one of their number changed history.
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The rise and rise of the Bin Laden family is one of the great stories of the twentieth century; its repercussions have already deeply marked the twenty-first. Until now, however, it is a story that has never been fully told, as the Bin Ladens have successfully fended off attempts to understand the family circles from which Osama sprang. In this the family has been abetted by the kingdom it calls home, Saudi Arabia, one of the most closed societies on earth.Steve Coll's The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century is the groundbreaking history of a family and its fortune. It chronicles a young illiterate Yemeni bricklayer, Mohamed Bin Laden, who went to the new, oil-rich country of Saudi Arabia and quickly became a vital figure in its development, building great mosques and highways and making himself and many of his children millionaires. It is also a story of the Saudi royal family, whom the Bin Ladens served loyally and without whose capricious favor they would have been nothing. And it is a story of tensions and contradictions in a country founded on extreme religious purity, which then became awash in oil money and dazzled by the temptations of the West. In only two generations the Bin Ladens moved from a famine-stricken desert canyon to luxury jets, yachts, and private compounds around the world, even going into business with Hollywood celebrities. These religious and cultural gyrations resulted in everything from enthusiasm for America-exemplified by Osama's free-living pilot brother Salem-to an overwhelming determination to destroy it.
The Bin Ladens is a meticulously researched, colorful, shocking, entertaining, and disturbing narrative of global integration and its limitations. It encapsulates the unsettling contradictions of globalization in the story of a single family who has used money, mobility, and technology to dramatically varied ends.
Autoren-Porträt von Steve Coll
Steve Coll is a writer for The New Yorker and author of the Pulitzer Prize- winning Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 . He is president of the New America Foundation, a public policy institute in Washington, D.C. Previously he served, for more than twenty years, as a reporter, foreign correspondent, and ultimately as managing editor of The Washington Post . He is also the author of On the Grand Trunk Road, The Deal of the Century, and The Taking of Getty Oil . Coll received a 1990 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism and the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for outstanding international print reporting and the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for best magazine reporting from abroad. Ghost Wars , published in 2004, received the Pulitzer for general nonfiction and the Arthur Ross award for the best book on international affairs.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Steve Coll
- 2008, 688 Seiten, 8 Abbildungen, Maße: 16,6 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin US
- ISBN-10: 1594201641
- ISBN-13: 9781594201646
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.04.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"A fascinating panorama . . . about a man and his family [and] the powerful impact they have made on our times."- The Washington Post
"Riveting . . . the most psychologically detailed portrait of the brutal 9/11 mastermind yet."
-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Stunningly researched and grippingly told . . . [ The Bin Ladens ] ought to be read by anyone who really wants to understand the origins of the current crisis."
-Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times
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