The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century

aA fascinating panorama . . . about a man and his family [and] the powerful impact they have made on our times.a
a"The Washington Post"
aRiveting . . . the most psychologically detailed portrait of the brutal 9/11 mastermind yet.a
aMichiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"
aStunningly researched and grippingly told . . . ["The Bin Ladens"] ought to be read by anyone who really wants to understand the origins of the current crisis.a
aTim Rutten, "Los Angeles Times"

"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

Steve Coll is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars and the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and from 2007 to 2013 was president of the New America Foundation, a public policy institute in Washington, D.C. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and previously worked for twenty years at The Washington Post, where he received a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1990. He is the author of seven other books, including On the Grand Trunk Road, The Bin Ladens, Private Empire, and Directorate S.