Terry McDermott (journalist)
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Terry McDermott is an American journalist who served as a national correspondent with the Los Angeles Times[1][2] and is author of Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers, Who They Were, Why They Did It, an investigative non-fiction book profiling the hijackers of the September 11 attacks in 2001 as well as the al-Qaeda leaders who planned and orchestrated the attacks.[3] McDermott has claimed that Perfect Soldiers is the sole book among "more than ten thousand" books published about the 9/11 attacks which focuses entirely on the hijackers.[4]
Career
McDermott was a reporter for thirty years. As a reporter, he covered a number of topics such as county zoning boards, state legislatures, the culture of the
McDermott's research for Perfect Soldiers involved meeting and interviewing the families and former associates of the 9/11 hijackers. He has stated that the sparsity of books about the hijackers themselves is caused by a lack of available information about them; McDermott has cited the difficulty of locating and interviewing the relatives and other acquaintances of the hijackers in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan and other countries.[5]
Following the publication of Perfect Soldiers, McDermott has been interviewed in several documentaries on the 9/11 attacks and the
Personal
McDermott is a native of Iowa. He currently[when?] resides in southern California. He has a graduate degree in urban studies.[9]
Books
- Perfect Soldiers – The Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It, was published by HarperCollins in 2005. A trade paperback edition was released in August 2006.
- 101 Theory Drive: A Scientist’s Pursuit of Memory Pantheon, April, 2010, paperback April 2011.
- The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind – Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, co-authored by Josh Meyer, Little Brown March, 2012.[10]
References
- ^ "Editorial Staff". The Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2007-09-13. Retrieved 2007-12-13.
- ^ "Terry McDermott - Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
- ^ Kakutani, Michiko (May 20, 2005). "Ordinary but for the Evil They Wrought". The New York Times.
- ^ Godless Spellchecker (2016-12-01), Ep#91 - Terry McDermott - Perfect Soldiers, retrieved 2017-11-14
- ^ Godless Spellchecker (2016-12-01), Ep#91 - Terry McDermott - Perfect Soldiers, retrieved 2017-11-14
- ^ olabeast (2011-08-27), 9/11 Inside The Hamburg Cell, archived from the original on 2014-01-08, retrieved 2018-05-26
- ^ National Geographic: Inside 9/11, Rohan Gunaratna, Terry McDermott, Patrick Fitzgerald, retrieved 2017-11-14
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Дејан ЦзБг (2015-09-13), 9/10: The Final Hours HD, archived from the original on 2021-12-12, retrieved 2017-11-14
- ^ "Terry McDermott". Terry McDermott. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
- ^ "About Me | Terry McDermott". McDermott. 4 December 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
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