American Ground
Subtitle: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: September 11, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780865476752
Subjects: Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism; Politics/International Relations; Political; Building Engineering (Specific Aspects); Political Discontent And Violence; United States - 21st Century; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Political Science / Political Freedom & Security / Terrorism; General; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Wrecking; American; Incident command systems; New York; New York (State)
First sentence: When the Twin Towers collapsed, on the warm, bright morning of September 11, 2001, they made a sound heard variously around New York as a roar, a growl, or distant thunder.
Description: "Within days after September 11, 2001, William Langewiesche had secured unique, unrestricted, around-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, bravery, resourcefulness, and fundamental, cacophonous democracy - Langewiesche reveals the unbuilding to be uniquely American and oddly inspiring, an exercise in resilience and ingenuity in the face of disaster."--BOOK JACKET.