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PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100865476756
ISBN-139780865476752
eBay Product ID (ePID)2740216
Product Key Features
Book TitleAmerican Ground : Unbuilding the World Trade Center
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicConstruction / General, Buildings / General, Terrorism, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Structural, United States / 21st Century
Publication Year2003
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Technology & Engineering, Architecture, History
AuthorWilliam Langewiesche
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight7.8 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"The one book to read, if you're only reading one." -- Detroit Free Press "Slim but powerful . . . truth, unclouded by sentiment." -- The New York Times Book Review "One of the most compelling, dramatic, and uplifting pieces of writing you are likely ever to read." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Extraordinary . . . An amazing piece of journalism, full of colorful characters and astonishing scenes." -- Peter Carlson, The Washington Post "Says more about our essential character than a thousand maudlin tributes." -- Boris Kachka, New York, "The one book to read, if you're only reading one." --Detroit Free Press "Slim but powerful . . . truth, unclouded by sentiment." --The New York Times Book Review "One of the most compelling, dramatic, and uplifting pieces of writing you are likely ever to read." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Extraordinary . . . An amazing piece of journalism, full of colorful characters and astonishing scenes." --Peter Carlson,The Washington Post "Says more about our essential character than a thousand maudlin tributes." --Boris Kachka,New York, "The one book to read, if you're only reading one." -- Detroit Free Press "Slim but powerful . . . truth, unclouded by sentiment." -- The New York Times Book Review "One of the most compelling, dramatic, and uplifting pieces of writing you are likely ever to read." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Extraordinary . . . An amazing piece of journalism, full of colorful characters and astonishing scenes." --Peter Carlson, The Washington Post "Says more about our essential character than a thousand maudlin tributes." --Boris Kachka, New York, "The one book to read, if you're only reading one." --Detroit Free Press "Slim but powerful . . . truth, unclouded by sentiment." --The New York Times Book Review "One of the most compelling, dramatic, and uplifting pieces of writing you are likely ever to read." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Extraordinary . . . An amazing piece of journalism, full of colorful characters and astonishing scenes." --Peter Carlson, The Washington Post "Says more about our essential character than a thousand maudlin tributes." --Boris Kachka, New York, Extraordinary . . . An amazing piece of journalism, full of colorful characters and astonishing scenes.
Dewey Decimal974.7/1044
SynopsisSelected 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.
LC Classification NumberHV6432
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