American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center

American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center - Paperback

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American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center - Paperback

American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center - Paperback

by William Langewiesche
$19.00
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Book Overview

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.
ISBN9780865476752
Author William Langewiesche
PublisherNorth Point Press
GenreNews & politics and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2003
LanguageENG- English
Pages240
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About William Langewiesche

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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