9/11 (TRIH ep 95)
2001 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History marks the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the symbolism, origins and long-term consequences of 9/11: the visual spectacle of the strikes, Osama bin Laden's motives and al‑Qaeda’s internationalist recruitment, and the Cold War and 1990s context (globalisation, Fukuyama's 'end of history', Benjamin Barber’s Jihad vs. McWorld). They trace bin Laden’s background from the anti‑Soviet jihad in Afghanistan to...
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- September 11 attacks (2001)
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- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)
- Crazy (Gnarls Barkley) (2006)
- I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston) (1992)
- Global financial crisis (2007)
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