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The Eleventh Day: The Full Story Of 9/11 And Osama Bin Laden (2011)

by Anthony Summers(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

140006659X (ISBN13: 9781400066599)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Ballantine Books/Random House (NYC)

review 1: I am a member of the subset generation called the 9/11 Generation: we were between the ages of 10 and 20 on September 11th. I don't know if this precisely makes us different from say any other generation that straddled a particularly traumatizing national event, but it's something that I kept in my mind whilst reading this book. That is its strength. Anthony Summers managed to remind me of the world that used to be, and to give an excellent narrative of the day that changed it. Also, while he dismisses many (though not all) of the claims of the 9/11 Truth Movement in a satisfactory manner he is also very critical of the Bush Administration for both its poor response to, and subsequent exploitation of this day, as well as the suppression of evidence that could link much of ... morethe funding of 9/11 to Saudi Royals, who as a family bloc had definite connections to the Bush Family, and the Bush Presidency. But, on all this-which is itself quite disturbing, it is important to recall that the United States Military Budget, which exceeds the spending of any other governmental agency, by a huge amount, was completely incapable of defending not only the civilian population of New York, but even its own center of operations: the Pentagon. Yet, the Military Budget, which is well nigh untouchable-the true Third Rail of politics in this country at the present-is increased more often than not at the expense of education, health, infrastructure, and social welfare programs. To avoid further preaching I very much enjoyed this book, and wholeheartedly recommend it.
review 2: An exhaustive investigation which includes examinations of "truthers," al Qaeda, bin Laden, Bush, Clinton, Clarke, the CIA, the FBI, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It lays out how the attacks were planned and executed and gives the reader a sense of who perpetrators were and describes their skewed motivations. I found it especially unsettling to read about how many warnings we received in the months and years leading up to September 11, 2001 - some of them extremely specific - which went unheeded or under-pursued. It is also difficult to learn how much of the 9/11 Commission Report is redacted for security reasons, potentially allowing officials to cover their own culpability. And I had no idea how much evidence has been found suggesting a direct tie to the government of Saudi Arabia. We owe it to the families of the victims to get the real story, and we don't have all of it yet. less

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