When the Twin Towers collapsed, on the warm, bright morning of September 11, 2001, they made a sound heard variously around New York as a roar, a growl, or distant thunder.
An edition of American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
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American Ground
Unbuilding the World Trade Center
by William Langewiesche
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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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World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.), Construction and demolition debris, September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, Skyscrapers, Wrecking, Incident command systems, Structural engineering, Design and construction, Underground construction, World Trade Center (New York, N.Y. : 1970-2001), New York Times reviewedPlaces
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American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
September 11, 2003, North Point Press
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American ground: unbuilding the World Trade Center
2003, RB Large Print
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American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
January 2003, Recorded Books
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American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
January 30, 2002, Diane Pub Co
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American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
October 24, 2002, North Point Press
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"When the Twin Towers collapsed, on the warm, bright morning of September 11, 2001, they made a sound heard variously around New York as a roar, a growl, or distant thunder."
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American Ground is the story - until now untold - of the people who responded to the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Within days, William Langewiesche made his way into the innermost recesses of the collapse. By virtue of the integrity and excellence of his previous work, he quickly secured unique, unrestricted, around-the-clock access to the site, the rescue workers and laborers there, and the meetings of city officials, engineers, construction companies, and consultants.
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