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City In The Sky: Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center
James Glanz, Eric Lipton
"James Glanz and Eric Lipton's brilliantly reported and profoundly moving but admirably clear-eyed account of the accidental conception, long gestation, difficult birth, brief life and tragic death of the World Trade Center is likely to remain a classic."
Times Books
August 2004
480 pages ISBN: 0805076913 Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
The World Trade Center was the biggest and brashest icon
that New York has ever produced-a pair of magnificent
giants that became intimately familiar around the globe. In this vivid, brilliantly researched narrative, New York
Times reporters James Glanz and Eric Lipton re-create the
life of the World Trade Center from its genesis in David
Rockefeller's ambition to rebuild lower Manhattan to the
spirited battles with local storeowners and powerful
politicians who opposed it, to the bold structural
engineering innovations that would later determine who
lived and died in its collapse. And like David McCullough's
The Great Bridge, City in the Sky is a riveting story of
New York itself - of architectural daring, political
maneuvering, human ambition and frailty, and a lost
American icon.
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