American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center 2 weeks ago.

• AMERICAN GROUND - one of the most controversial pieces of 9/11 publishing - is the result of Langewiesche's nine months in the Dantesque world of Ground Zero. With 'truth, unclouded by sentiment' (NEW YORK TIMES), he documented the lives of the engineers, labourers, rescue workers and city officials as they brought order to a land of chaos, anatomising the physical details of the collapse and revealing the contests of politics and personality that were its aftershock.

Shelfari edited the contributors of American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center 2 weeks ago.

• Added a contributor: William Langewiesche: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the description of American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center Saturday, August 8 2009.

• AMERICAN GROUND - one of the most controversial pieces of 9/11 publishing - is the result of Langewiesche's nine months in the Dantesque world of Ground Zero. With 'truth, unclouded by sentiment' (NEW YORK TIMES), he documented the lives of the engineers, labourers, rescue workers and city officials as they brought order to a land of chaos, anatomising the physical details of the collapse and revealing the contests of politics and personality that were its aftershock.

Shelfari edited the contributors of American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: William Langewiesche: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center Friday, July 17 2009.

• 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.