Lawrence Wright
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Sep 13, 2026
Dylan BunnellHOST
And I've just talked about the one and walk away thinking that they have the answer.
Dylan BunnellHOST
And I would suggest if you want the history of Al-Qaeda and the intelligence failures leading up to September 11th, Lawrence Wright wrote a book called The Looming Tower, and that's a pretty great place to start.
Dylan BunnellHOST
It sits on my bookshelf if you'd like to borrow it.
Dylan BunnellHOST
And it's not a conspiracy theory book.
Jeremy KinsmanHOST
it really is an awful thing to look back on.
Jeremy KinsmanHOST
But, you know, do you remember the book, The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright about the rise of Al-Qaeda and what led up to 9-11? He was talking yesterday on an interview, and he was saying that his great regret is that the United States went overboard, just went crazy on the terror thing, Rumsfeld and Cheney, and then took on Iraq.
Jeremy KinsmanHOST
And at the end of the day, which lasted 20 years, spent two and a half trillion dollars to lose Afghanistan again and turn the Middle East around Iraq into a failed region.
Jeremy KinsmanHOST
And his lament was how Americans could have used that $2.5 trillion on their educational system or health or science or the other things where things are receding.
Jeremy KinsmanHOST
it really is an awful thing to look back on.
Jeremy KinsmanHOST
But, you know, do you remember the book, The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright about the rise of Al-Qaeda and what led up to 9-11? He was talking yesterday on an interview, and he was saying that his great regret is that the United States went overboard, just went crazy on the terror thing, Rumsfeld and Cheney, and then took on Iraq.
Jeremy KinsmanHOST
And at the end of the day, which lasted 20 years, spent two and a half trillion dollars to lose Afghanistan again and turn the Middle East around Iraq into a failed region.
Jeremy KinsmanHOST
And his lament was how Americans could have used that $2.5 trillion on their educational system or health or science or the other things where things are receding.
Clay TravisHOST
It's phenomenally well done.
Buck SextonHOST
It's a very, uh, uh, Lawrence Wright?
Clay TravisHOST
Lawrence Wright.
Buck SextonHOST
Lawrence Wright, yeah, yeah.
Clay TravisHOST
Uh-
Buck SextonHOST
It's a very good book
Clay TravisHOST
It's phenomenally well done.
Buck SextonHOST
It's a very, uh, r- uh, Lawrence Wright?
Clay TravisHOST
Lawrence Wright.
Buck SextonHOST
Lawrence Wright, yeah, yeah.
Clay TravisHOST
Uh-
Buck SextonHOST
It's a very good book
Nick BryantHOST
We spent quite a bit of time this week talking about the 25th anniversary of 9-11, the attacks of September the 11th.
Nick BryantHOST
I really wanted to speak to a guy called Lawrence Wright.
Nick BryantHOST
I think he wrote the superlative book on 9-11.
Nick BryantHOST
It's called The Looming Tower.
Nick BryantHOST
The chimes mark the exact time that each of the four planes crashed and the exact time the Twin Towers fell.
Nick BryantHOST
This year, there was a seventh bell to remember the thousands who died from diseases, including cancer, after the attacks.
Nick BryantHOST
That day changed America, that day changed our world, and perhaps the superlative book on 9-11 was written by the journalist Lawrence Wright.
Nick BryantHOST
It was entitled The Looming Tower, and it chronicled the rise of the terror group Al-Qaeda, which carried out the attacks.
Hugh HewittHOST
John, what is the best thing to read or things to read about 9-11 25 years later?
John EllisGUEST
I think the best book to read is Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower, which is sort of the history of Al Qaeda.
John EllisGUEST
And it's just, you can't put it down.
John EllisGUEST
It's an extraordinary piece of work.
Jack ArmstrongHOST
All the different things.
Jack ArmstrongHOST
But anyway, I saw Lawrence Wright, the author of that book, on one of the cable news channels today, and he was talking about, imagine if bin Laden had had AI, what he might have been able to do or what plans he could have come up with.
Jack ArmstrongHOST
And to that point...
Jack ArmstrongHOST
This week, you know, we had the whole entropic thing with the guy resigning and saying they're talking in the hallways about AI could kill us all the next 10 years or whatever, all that sort of stuff.
Clay TravisHOST
Let me give you two books.
Clay TravisHOST
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright is one of the best works of narrative nonfiction that I have read ever.
Clay TravisHOST
It takes you into how did 9-11 come to be, how did the terrorist planning networks work, what failures occurred inside of the United States government that we did not catch these 19 terrorists who killed 3,000 Americans and the brutal attacks there on 9-11.
Clay TravisHOST
The other one is The Only Plane in the Sky.
Clay TravisHOST
It took a long time, as many of you know, to actually end all of the fires associated with both the attack in 9-11 and also the attack in the Pentagon.
Clay TravisHOST
And so I think it's worthy of thinking about that today on the 25th anniversary.
Clay TravisHOST
And if you've got kids, you've got grandkids that may not be as well informed about 9-11 as you would like, The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright, and The Only Plane in the Sky, which is an oral history, two incredible books that will take you back in time and help you remember those days.
Clay TravisHOST
So that is a serious thing, and I hope some of you will take the time.
Nick BryantHOST
This year, there was a seventh bell to remember the thousands who died from diseases, including cancer, after the attacks.
Nick BryantHOST
That day changed America, that day changed our world, and perhaps the superlative book on 9-11 was written by the journalist Lawrence Wright.
Nick BryantHOST
It was entitled The Looming Tower, and it chronicled the rise of the terror group Al-Qaeda, which carried out the attacks.
Nick BryantHOST
I spoke to Lawrence just before coming on air.
Nick BryantHOST
Lawrence Wright, thanks for joining us on Saturday Extra.
Nick BryantHOST
It's good to be with you, Nick.
Nick BryantHOST
Lawrence, there must be a lot of emotions that have been stirred today.
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Lawrence WrightGUEST
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