Monday, December 14, 2009
Bob’s 2008 conversation with journalist Steve Coll about his book The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century. Mohamed Bin Laden went from illiterate Yemeni bricklayer to a private-jet-traveling, multi-millionaire and patriarch of one of the world’s most infamous families. Steve Coll previously won the Pulitzer for Ghost Wars, his book about the origins of Al Qaeda.