American ground, unbuilding the World Trade Center / William Langewiesche.
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TextPublisher: New York : North Point Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Edition: First editionDescription: 205 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0865475822
- 9780865475823
- 0865476756
- 9780865476752
- American ground, unbuilding the World Trade Centre
- World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.)
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
- Wrecking -- New York (State) -- New York
- Incident command systems -- New York (State) -- New York
- Skyscrapers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Design and construction
- Construction and demolition debris -- New York (State) -- New York
- Structural engineering -- New York (State) -- New York
- Underground construction -- New York (State) -- New York
- 974.71044 21
- HV6432 .L364 2002
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"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.
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