The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden

The world’s leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the “riveting” ( The New York Times ) definitive biography of a man who set the course of American foreign policy for the 21st century and whose ideological heirs we continue to battle today. In The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden , Peter Bergan provides the first reevaluation of the man responsible for precipitating America’s long war with al-Qaeda and its decedents, capturing bin Laden in all the dimensions of his life: