American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:North Point PressISBN-13:9780865476752ISBN-10:865476756UPC:9780865476752Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Terrorism, United StatesBook Topic:21st CenturySize:8.24 x 5.50 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.49Product ID:SCQN5J9392
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.Languages:EnglishPublisher:North Point PressISBN-13:9780865476752ISBN-10:865476756UPC:9780865476752Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Terrorism, United StatesBook Topic:21st CenturySize:8.24 x 5.50 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.49Product ID:SCQN5J9392
William Langewiesche is the author of several books, including Cutting for Sign, Sahara Unveiled, and Inside the Sky. He is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, where American Ground originated as a three-part series.
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