Osama bin Laden

Other available biographies depict Osama bin Laden as a historical figure, the mastermind behind 9/11, but no longer relevant to the world it created. These accounts, the author believes, have contributed to a widespread and dangerous denial of his continuing significance and power. In this book the author, the first head of the CIA's bin Laden Unit, provides a closely reasoned portrait of bin Laden showing him to be a figure of remarkable leadership skills, strategic genius, and considerable rhetorical abilities. 9/11 almost instantaneously remade American politics and foreign policy. The…