{"product_id":"perfect-soldiers","title":"Perfect Soldiers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The definitive book on the 19 men who brought such devastation and terror to this country ... a well-told, meticulously researched cautionary tale.\" -- \u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUsing research undertaken in twenty countries on four continents, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e correspondent Terry McDermott provides gripping, authoritative portraits of the main players in the 9\/11 plot. With brilliant reporting and thoughtful analysis, McDermott brings us a clearer, more nuanced, and in some ways more frightening, understanding of the landmark event of our time.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe attacks of September 11, 2001, were a calamity on a scale few had imagined possible. In their aftermath, we exaggerated the men who perpetrated the attacks, shaping hasty and often mistaken reporting into caricatures we could comprehend--monsters and master criminals equal to the enormity of their crime. In reality, the 9\/11 hijackers were unexceptional men, not much different from countless others. It is this ordinary enemy, not the caricature, that we must understand if we are to have a legitimate hope of defeating terrorism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50010369360122,"sku":"9780060584702","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/1253\/1962\/files\/imageloader_e8ee2a36-4b86-4b09-ae24-b6058ff59f9d.jpg?v=1786131146","url":"https:\/\/mindsourcebooks.com\/products\/perfect-soldiers","provider":"Mind Source Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}