Women at Ground Zero: Stories of Courage and Compassion
In this moving, disturbing, and uplifting collection of interviews and photos, Northern California authors Susan Hagen and Mary Carouba showcase female firefighters, police officers, emergency medical technicians, and Port Authority personnel...who were on the scene that day. In the manner of Studs Terkel, the authors wisely let their 30 subjects talk uninterrupted and at length. The power is in the minute-by-minute graphic accounts of these women doing their jobs. --San Jose Mercury NewsThese women divulge. They summon details...the women's capacity for wonder and doubt, and their willingness to express it, fills the book. --The Washington PostAptly subtitled 'Stories of Courage and Compassion,' this exceptional book goes a long way to fill a major gap in the coverage of the events of that fateful Tuesday and the days of horror and heroism that followed. --New York Daily News