The Power of Nightmares
was first screened on the BBC in Autumn 2004. Many
viewers asked the series creator, Adam Curtis to
detail any books covering the ideas in the series
and filling in the background. Here are his suggestions:
For Islamism:
- Gilles Kepe- Jihad - The Trail of Political
Islam and his earlier book, The Prophet
and the Pharaoh
- The writings of Sayyid Qutb - in particular Milestones (also
translated as Signposts Along the Road)
- Olivier Roy - The Failure of Political
Islam and Globalized Islam
- Jason Burke - Al Qaeda
About Afghanistan:
- Barnett Rubin - The Fragmentation of Afghanistan by
and his follow up called The Search for Peace
in Afghanistan.
- Zawahiri's own account of the struggle is translated
as Knight's under the Prophet's Banner
For the history of Neoconservatism:
- Sidney Blumenthal - The Rise of the Counterestablishment
- Irving Kristol - Neoconservatism
- Leo Strauss - The American Right - Shadia
Drury
- Stephen Holmes - Antiliberalism
- Robert Devigne - Recasting Conservatism
- Irving Kristol - Neoconservatism
- Allan Bloom - The Closing of the American
Mind
And for the weirdness of the 1990s:
- David Brock - Blinded by the Right
- Nina Easton - The Gang of Five: The Leaders
at the Centre of the Conservative Ascendancy
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