num_pages: 288
description: An unprecedented cross-section of New Yorkersinterviewed at intervals since 9/11tell the story of the Trade Center attack and how it changed their livesThe land we travel through in this book is New York City in the aftermathboth immediate and long termof the spectacular attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001. from the introduction to After the FallPublished to mark the tenth anniversary of the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks After the Fall is a landmark oral history drawn from the celebrated collection of 9/11 interviews at Columbia University.Within days of 9/11 Columbias Oral History Research Office deployed interviewers across the city to begin collecting the accounts and observations of hundreds of people from a diverse mix of New York neighborhoods and backgrounds. Over subsequent months and years follow-up interviews produced a deep and revealing look at how the attacks changed individual lives and communities in New York City.After the Fall presents a selection of these fascinating testimonies with heartbreaking and enlightening stories from a broad range of New Yorkers. The interviews include first-responders taxi drivers school teachers artists religious leaders immigrants and others who were interviewed at intervals since the 2001 attacks. The result is a remarkable time-lapse account of the city as it changed in the wake of 9/11 one that will resonate powerfully with New Yorkers and millions of others who continue to feel the impact of the most damaging attack on American soil in history.
language: English
title: After the Fall: New Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years That Followed
publisher: The New Press