Books about terrorism.

Is it opportunism or feeding an audience that wants to know more about terrorism, likely threats and the dangers that face us all if we say boo to a "holy" cow?

It's an age-old question that has also plagued media as a whole. Is media getting worse or is it giving the audience what they want?

I know I have not read one book about terrorism since 9-11 or before. That doesn't mean I don't feel informed. It doesn't mean I don't want to, necessarily.

Terrorism to me means something in the "now." I would probably have the same reaction you're going to have when you read my next sentence. But, knowing what has caused terrorism in the past, does very little to help "us" as citizens deal with anything useful.

The anticipated reaction: But if you don't learn from the past you are doomed to repeat them or some such variation thereof.

I'd say if we open our ears, the people who foster terrorism will tell us their own history. They might do it in book form, true.

Not many of these books are rocketing up the charts. Of course not, they deal with serious subjects and are not diatribes of any political pursuasion. They are not written by "celebrities." The general unwashed masses seems to want opinions already packaged and presented to them, rather than get the nuts to form their own.
Self-correction: I stand corrected, I guess. The book here is No. 488 on Amazon. Not terrible. Not a rocket.

Blogcritics: "The West is in a race for its life" [also incorporates NY Times review.]

No matter how weary and frustrated we become, we have no choice but to unyieldingly kick Islamoterrorist ass around the globe until "modernity" does "transform it." We cannot relent - we have only begun.

Washington Times: Inside Terrorism

Mr. Laqueur's insights on the latest trends in terrorist warfare are valuable. In his chapter "Jihad," he points out that the terrorist threat became a global phenomenon in the 1990s when what previously were primarily local conflicts were transformed into a worldwide campaign. Here, groups such as the al Qaeda Jihadists coalesced as a major threat following their "apprenticeship" in the 1980s anti-Soviet Afghanistan campaigns. In an example of how these groups threaten the West, Mr. Laqueur discusses the ways in which the Jihadists have established attack cells among the Muslim communities in many European capitals.

There are 3331 entries when you search for the word "terrorism" through Amazon (books only). Special mention to the government for 30,000 pages and the longest title known to man - see below.