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BRIAN LAMB, HOST: Bernard Lewis, author of "What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response", where did you get the idea for this book?
PROFESSOR BERNARD LEWIS, AUTHOR, "WHAT WENT WRONG?: WESTERN IMPACT AND MIDDLE EASTERN RESPONSE" Well, we just sort of grew naturally. It was not caused by recent events; the book was already in page proof on September the 11th. But anyone who followed the Middle East could see which way things were going. This started as a series of public lectures which I gave in Vienna and then I decided to expand it, recast it, add to it, and it turned into this book.