Louise Richardson, in her new book What Terrorists Want, offers a curiously bloodless account of terrorists and terrorism that is refreshingly devoid of the hysteria often associated with this highly charged subject. By studying terrorism as a phenomenon that has occurred all over the world, throughout human history, and that has been perpetrated by many different types of pe (...)
November 17, 2006
Books
Understanding the Enemy
What Terrorists WantLouise RichardsonRandom House, $25.95, 239 pp.
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