{"product_id":"bin-ladens-an-arabian-family-in-the-american-century","title":"Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSteve Coll\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781594201646\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePenguin Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2008\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e671\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eThe rise and rise of the Bin Laden family is one of the great stories of the twentieth century; its repercussions have already deeply marked the twenty-first. Until now, however, it is a story that has never been fully told, as the Bin Ladens have successfully fended off attempts to understand the family circles from which Osama sprang. In this the family has been abetted by the kingdom it calls home, Saudi Arabia, one of the most closed societies on earth.\u003cp\u003eSteve Coll s \"The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century\" is the groundbreaking history of a family and its fortune. It chronicles a young illiterate Yemeni bricklayer, Mohamed Bin Laden, who went to the new, oil-rich country of Saudi Arabia and quickly became a vital figure in its development, building great mosques and highways and making himself and many of his children millionaires. It is also a story of the Saudi royal family, whom the Bin Ladens served loyally and without whose capricious favor they would have been nothing. And it is a story of tensions and contradictions in a country founded on extreme religious purity, which then became awash in oil money and dazzled by the temptations of the West. In only two generations the Bin Ladens moved from a famine-stricken desert canyon to luxury jets, yachts, and private compounds around the world, even going into business with Hollywood celebrities. These religious and cultural gyrations resulted in everything from enthusiasm for America exemplified by Osama s free-living pilot brother Salem to an overwhelming determination to destroy it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Bin Ladens\" is a meticulously researched, colorful, shocking, entertaining, and disturbing narrative of global integration and its limitations. It encapsulates the unsettling contradictions of globalization in the story of a single family who has used money, mobility, and technology to dramatically varied ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Penguin Press","offers":[{"title":"Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century | Steve Coll | Hardcover | 9781594201646 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks A 1776009","offer_id":49725228679320,"sku":"1776009","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81tXbGw665L.jpg?v=1787324783","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/bin-ladens-an-arabian-family-in-the-american-century","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}