Scott's review
9/11 Commission Report, The: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition)
by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
Scott's review
9/11 Commission Report, The: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition) by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
Scott's review
rating:
The first 10% of this book is very well worth reading, offering as it does a detailed, minute-by-minute breakdown of exactly what happened on September 11, 2001, from the perspective of the various aviation and federal organizations. If you were mesmerized, like I was, by the documentary-like vision of the movie "United 93" and interested in the particulars of how the other three planes were hijacked, and how the casual ineptness of human agency allowed it to happen, that first chapter is a must-read. The outdated remainder of the book, backfilling the history of al-Qaeda and radical Islam, and recommending a litany of moderately sweeping solutions, is less essential and if anything, more depressing, given how the government failed to enact more than their barest outlines and took post-9/11 policy in a baffling new direction. (Hint: nowhere in this book do the commission members recommend an invasion of Iraq.) Recommended as a sobering history lesson but you may just want...more
