{"product_id":"the-eleventh-day-the-full-story-of-911-and-osama-bin-laden-9781400066599","title":"The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9\/11 and Osama bin Laden","description":"\u003cp\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE  Writing with access to thousands of recently released official documents  fresh interviews  and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection  Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan deliver the first panoramic  authoritative look back at 9\/11.  For most living Americans  September 11  2001  is the darkest date in the nations history. What exactly happened? Could it have been prevented? How and why did so much acrimony and bad information arise from the ashes of the World Trade Center  the Pentagon  and a quiet field in Pennsylvania? And what remains unresolved? What is certain: Discord and dissent continue to this day.  Beginning with the first brutal actions of the hijackers aboard American Airlines Flight 11  The Eleventh Day tracks the precise sequence of events and introduces the players: pilots  terrorists  the airliners passengers  and the innocents who died on the ground. Drawing on previously classified records and raw transcripts  Summers and Swan investigate the response of President Bush and the U.S. military that day  and the failure to intercept the hijacked airliners. They document the untruths told afterward by U.S. officials and  as a counterpoint  thoroughly consider the contentions of the 9\/11 truth movement. With meticulous research  they examine the personalities of the men behind the onslaught  analyze the motives that drove them  and expose the U.S. intelligence blunders that preceded the attacks. They note how afterwardwithout good evidencethe Bush administration persisted in trying to link 9\/11 to Iraq. And they confront  finally  the question the 9\/11 Commissions report blurred: Were the terrorists backed by powerful figures in another foreign nationone the U.S. had long viewed as a friend?  Riveting  revelatory  and unforgettable  thoroughly sourced and complete with extensive endnotes  The Eleventh Day is the essential one-volume work on a pivotal event in our history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647845818421,"sku":"ByrdShop_140006659X","price":24.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781400066599.jpg?v=1781697953","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-eleventh-day-the-full-story-of-911-and-osama-bin-laden-9781400066599","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}