An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List

95. 9/11

September 09, 2021

Description

On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, four commercial airliners were hijacked above the US by the militant Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda. What followed was the deadliest terrorist...
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Books Referenced

The End of History and the Last Man

Author: Francis Fukuyama

Context:

Referenced in discussion of 1990s context and post-Cold War triumphalism, describing Fukuyama's argument that Western liberal democracy represents the final form of ideological evolution

Jihad vs. McWorld

Author: Benjamin Barber

Context:

Explicitly mentioned as starting as an article in The Atlantic in 1992 that 'became a book a year later,' discussing the two forces of globalization and tribalism that would shape human affairs

The 9/11 Wars

Author: Jason Burke

Context:

Explicitly described as a 'fabulous book' by Jason Burke, an Observer journalist, referenced when discussing the impact of 9/11 on those who lived through the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan