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Lawrence Wright
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April 2016
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
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2013
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2 editions
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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2006
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75 editions
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The End of October
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2020
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5 editions
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God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
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2018
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18 editions
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Mr. Texas
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2023
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6 editions
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Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
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2014
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The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid
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2020
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2 editions
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Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory
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1994
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21 editions
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The Human Scale
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2025
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6 editions
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The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
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2016
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2 editions
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thanks, Derek. I read a ton of books about the history of the Middle East while I was writing my account of the 1978 Carter-Begin-Sadat summit that led to the first and most durable peace in the Mideast, 'Thirteen Days in September." Many histories a
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“Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored; where the art is impoverished; where entertainment—movies, theater, music—is policed or absent altogether; and where young men are set apart from the consoling and socializing presence of women.”
― The Looming Tower
― The Looming Tower
“Religion is always an irrational enterprise, no matter how ennobling it may be to the human spirit.”
― Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
― Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
“If you paid any attention to the role of disease in human affairs, you’d know the danger we’re in. We got smug after all of the victories over infection in the twentieth century, but nature is not a stable force. It evolves, it changes, and it never becomes complacent. We don’t have the time or resources now to do anything other than fight this disease. Every nation on earth has to be involved whether you think of them as friends or enemies. If we’re going to save civilization, we have to fight together and not against each other.”
― The End of October
― The End of October
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