American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
of William Langewiesche
Description
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-TimesWithin 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.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 240 pages
- Publisher North Point Press
- Publication Date September 11th 2003
- First Publication 10/24/02
- Language English
- ISBN 9780865476752
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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