THE RISE AND FALL OF OSAMA BIN LADEN” University of Virginia, online

The Colonnade Club

PETER BERGEN RETURNS TO COLONNADE CLUB FOR A VIRTUAL DISCUSSION ON HIS BOOK ” THE RISE AND FALL OF OSAMA BIN LADEN”
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
6:30 PM 7:30 PM
HISTORIC & INTELLECTUAL PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE PROUDLY PRESENTS A VIRTUAL DISCUSSION WITH
PETER BERGEN
Author of the book “The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden”.

Tuesday, August 10, 6:30 p.m.

The virtual discussion will be moderated by McGregor McCance

Associate Vice President for University Communication and

Executive Director, UVA Today

Click to learn more about McGregor McCance and his work
As we approach the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, our university, our country and the world look back not only on the attacks of 2001 but also Bin Laden’s death ten years ago in 2011. Our special guest has extensively researched Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden and will share his insights with the Colonnade Club.

In The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, Peter Bergen provides unique and in-depth insights in the 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. Peter Bergen describes the dimensions and contradictions in Bin Laden’s life: as a family man, as a terrorist leader, and as a fugitive. Through exclusive interviews with family members and associates, and documents unearthed only recently, Bergen’s portrait of Osama will reveal for the first time who he really was and why he continues to inspire a new generation of jihadists.

“A compelling, nuanced portrait of America’s erstwhile public enemy

No. 1… Throughout, Bergen turns up revealing details and sharp arguments against received wisdom… Essential for anyone concerned with geopolitics, national security, and the containment of further terrorist actions.”

—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Comprehensive, authoritative, and compelling.” — H.R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty and Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World

PETER BERGEN
Peter Bergen is a journalist, author, documentary producer, and Vice President for Global Studies and Fellows at New America; a professor of practice at Arizona State University; a fellow at Fordham University’s Center on National Security and CNN’s national security analyst. He has held teaching positions at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

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