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American Ground
American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center | William Langewiesche
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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. 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.
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A train full of sapeurs-pompiers (aka, French first responders) on their way to the World Trade Center site this morning to pay their respects. There were twelve of them, some carrying flowers.

If you want to read an amazing book about the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, try American Ground.

LauraBeth Wow - that's amazing. My office wasn't too far from Ground Zero and being so close to that as it all unfolded still impacts me. I wanted to move out of NYC immediately after 9/11 (even though it took me 4 years to finally move) and while I've been back to NYC since we moved (hubby's parents still live there), I haven't been able to go back to Ground Zero or that vicinity since 9/11 8y
ColleenLindsay @LauraBeth I see the new World Trade Center every morning when I exit the subway across the street. I don't know that the new skyline will ever look right to me. 8y
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