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American Ground : Unbuilding the World Trade Center
American Ground Unbuilding the World Trade Center
Author: William Langewiesche
Selected 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. America...  more »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.
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ISBN-13: 9780865476752
ISBN-10: 0865476756
Publication Date: 9/11/2003
Pages: 240
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Publisher: North Point Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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 TheLankyYankee avatar reviewed American Ground : Unbuilding the World Trade Center on + 81 more book reviews
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An excellent account on how the area, buildings, and wreckage of WTC were dismantled and shipped to Staten Island with care due to environmental worries and even including all NYC and NYS bureaucracies.

Never forget.
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 reviewed American Ground : Unbuilding the World Trade Center on + 366 more book reviews
By the first reporter granted total access to Ground Zero-and the 9 months he spent there among rescue and construction workers
harmony85 avatar reviewed American Ground : Unbuilding the World Trade Center on + 982 more book reviews
The Washington Post says:
"An extraordinary story...Langewiesche...was the only reporter granted total access to Ground Zero...He spent nine months there and emerged to write American Ground...It is an amazing piece of journalism, full of colorful characters and astonishing scenes."
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