Publisher's Synopsis
A riveting, panoramic look at "homegrown" jihadism, from "one of America's most important analysts of Islamist militancy and terrorism" (Steve Coll). Now in paperback with new material on the attacks in Orlando. Since 9/11, some 300 Americans-born and raised in Minnesota, Alabama, New Jersey, and elsewhere-have been indicted or convicted of terrorism charges. What motivates them, how are they trained, and what do we sacrifice in our aggressive efforts to track them? Paced like a detective story, United States of Jihad "weaves together exhaustive research" to tell the "mesmerizing stories" (Anne-Marie Slaughter) of the key actors on the American front. Peter Bergen also offers an inside look at the sometimes controversial tactics of the agencies tracking potential terrorists-from infiltrating mosques to conducting mass surveillance-and at the bias experienced by innocent observant Muslims at the hands of law enforcement, as he builds a newly incisive analysis of U.S. counterterrorism policy. "Read it," says Thomas E. Ricks, "and come away with a new understanding of America and of terrorism."
