![]() ![]() ![]() He has said, "I wanted to try to really understand one character, even if imagined, who could get recruited and undertake this horrific action through Islamic religious ideology… changed American history, and the clash of civilizations of Islam and Christianity was on nobody’s minds until then." The author has chosen to use fiction as a way of exploring and understanding radical Islam. He will discuss his most recent book, a novel, The Nineteenth Hijacker. ![]() Army Intelligence and taught creative writing at UNC for ten years. He graduated in philosophy from the University of North Carolina in 1963, served three years in U.S. He is the author of 18 books ranging from politics to medieval history to science to baseball (his 1997 book examining the lives of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti, the Commissioner of Baseball faced with the Rose gambling scandal, called " Collision at Home Plate.") He has also written three works of fiction. James Reston, is a prolific author and one of America’s leading men of letters. ![]()
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