American Ground
Unbuilding the World Trade Center
Langewiesche, William
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BOOK SUMMARY
Selected as one of the best books of 2002 by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-Times
Within days after September 11, 2001, William Langewiesche had secured unique, unrestricted, round-the-clock
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Selected as one of the best books of 2002 by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-Times
Within days after September 11, 2001, William Langewiesche had secured unique, unrestricted, round-the-clock access to the World Trade Center site. American Ground is a tour of this intense, ephemeral world and those who improvised the recovery effort day by day, and in the process reinvented themselves, discovering unknown strengths and weaknesses. In all of its aspects--emotionalism, impulsiveness, opportunism, territoriality, resourcefulness, and fundamental, cacophonous democracy--Langewiesche reveals the unbuilding to be uniquely American and oddly inspiring, a portrait of resilience and ingenuity in the face of disaster.
BOOK EXCERPTS
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--The New York Times Book Review
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--Peter Carlson, The Washington Post
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0865476756
ISBN(13-digit): 9780865476752
Dewey Decimal: 974.7/1044
Library of Congress: BL2003014365
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 240
Paper Weight (lb): 0.48
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