2007

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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Lawrence Wright

Published by Alfred A. Knopf

The Shortlist

The other shortlisted books for this year’s Lionel Gelber Prize were as follows:

Nixon in China: The Week That Changed the World
David M. Malone
The International Struggle Over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council: 1980-2005
Robert Kagan
Dangerous Nation: America’s Place in the World from its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Thomas E. Ricks
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

Jurors

Barbara McDougall

Jury Chair (Canada)

Bruce Jentleson

USA

Tod Lindberg

USA

George Russell

New York City, USA

Walter Russell Mead

USA

Press releases

Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower wins 2007 Lionel Gelber Prize for Non-fiction

Media coverage

Wright wins $15,000 Gelber Prize for book on the roots of 9/11

The Globe and Mail, March 7, 2007