03281cam a2200325 4500 530583006 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781101926598 1101926597 fd8883b9-cfed-42a3-8086-cfe5eb22b973 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2163518 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Shane, Scott. Objective Troy [Libby] : A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2015. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 404MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 403MB. History. Politics. Nonfiction. HTML:<i>Objective Troy</i> tells the gripping and unsettling story of Anwar al-Awlaki, the once-celebrated American imam who called for moderation after 9/11, a man who ultimately directed his outsized talents to the mass murder of his fellow citizens. It follows Barack Obama's campaign against the excesses of the Bush counterterrorism programs and his eventual embrace of the targeted killing of suspected militants. And it recounts how the president directed the mammoth machinery of spy agencies to hunt Awlaki down in a frantic, multi-million-dollar pursuit that would end with the death of Awlaki by a bizarre, robotic technology that is changing warfare—the drone.<br /> Scott Shane, who has covered terrorism for <i>The New York Times</i> over the last decade, weaves the clash between president and terrorist into both a riveting narrative and a deeply human account of the defining conflict of our era. Awlaki, who directed a plot that almost derailed Obama's presidency, and then taunted him from his desert hideouts, will go down in history as the first United States citizen deliberately hunted and assassinated by his own government without trial. But his eloquent calls to jihad, amplified by YouTube, continue to lure young Westerners into terrorism—resulting in tragedies from the Boston marathon bombing to the murder of cartoonists at a Paris weekly. Awlaki's life and death show how profoundly America has been changed by the threat of terrorism and by our own fears.<br /> Illuminating and provocative, and based on years of in depth reporting, <i>Objective Troy</i> is a brilliant reckoning with the moral challenge of terrorism and a masterful chronicle of our times.<br /> — Winner of the 2016 Lionel Gelber Prize<br /> — Finalist, 2015 IRE Awards. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Sanders, Fred. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/2163518-ObjectiveTroy.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fd8883b9-cfed-42a3-8086-cfe5eb22b973&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/2163518-ObjectiveTroy.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fd8883b9-cfed-42a3-8086-cfe5eb22b973&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)