num_pages: 240
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.
language: English
title: American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
titlecomplete: American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
genres: New York, History, American History, The United States Of America, War, Audiobook, Journalism, American, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 897
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: New York City Book Award
category: Journalism, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: North Point Press