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Also by James Glanz:

City In The Sky: Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center, August 2004
Trade Size (reprint)

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City In The Sky: Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center, August 2004
Trade Size (reprint)

CITY IN THE SKY: RISE AND FALL OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER
By: 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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