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American Ground: Unbuilding the Wor..., Langewiesche, W
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 0865475822
- EAN
- 9780865475823
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Type
- Hardback
- Release Title
- American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
- Artist
- Langewiesche, William
- Brand
- N/A
- Colour
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0865475822
ISBN-13
9780865475823
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2319246
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Ground : Unbuilding the World Trade Center
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Construction / General, Buildings / General, Terrorism, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Structural, United States / 21st Century
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Architecture, Technology & Engineering, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
13.2 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-075153
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"The most thoughtful and original [9-11] book to appear so far isAmerican Ground, William Langewiesche's meticulous description of the rescue effort at Ground Zero and the subsequent excavation of the 1.8 million tons of debris at the literal and emotional heart of this calamity. Langewiesche was granted almost unlimited access to the site and the rescue staff, and he made the most of the privilege." -Malcolm Jones,Newsweek "This is a genuinely monumental story, told without melodrama, an intimate depiction of ordinary Americans reacting to grand-scale tragedy." -Publishers Weekly(starred review) "An extraordinary story . . . Langewiesche . . . was the only reporter granted total access to Ground Zero . . . He spent nine months there and emerged to writeAmerican Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center. . . It is an amazing piece of journalism, full of colorful characters and astonishing scenes." -The Washington Post
Dewey Decimal
974.7/1044
Synopsis
The unsung-and revealing-story of the Herculean effort to finish the dismantling that terrorism began Unlike any other reporter, William Langewiesche has had unrestricted access to Ground Zero and the people involved in the cleanup. He has literally followed in the footsteps of engineers, "deconstruction" workers, firemen, and city officials as they tackle the mind-numbing task of bringing order to an instance of chaos unprecedented on our soil. American Ground is a tour of the interlocking circles of this Dantesque world. With the "knowledge and passion as well as ...careful eloquence" for which his reportage is known (New York Times Book Review), Langewiesche anatomizes the physical details of the collapse and deconstruction, capturing in the process the contest of politics and personality that were its aftershock. At the center of the book is the team of engineers, many of them instrumental in building the towers, who now must collaborate in the sad task of disassembling them. Their responses are as dramatic and unpredictable as the shifting pile of rubble and the surrounding "slurry wall" that constantly threatens to collapse, potentially flooding a large part of underground Manhattan. They are also emotional and territorial, as firemen, police, widows, and officials attempt to claim the tragedy-and the difficult work of extracting the rubble and the thousands of dead buried there-as their own. In all of these aspects-its vociferousness, spontaneity, ingenuity, and fundamental democracy-Langewiesche reveals the story of the deconstruction to be uniquely American, and harshly inspiring. He has constructed an account that will endure against the events of September 11, 2001 as John Hersey's Hiroshima stands in relation to August 1945.
LC Classification Number
HV6432.L364 2002
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