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100 1 $aLangewiesche, William.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93054207
245 10 $aAmerican ground, unbuilding the World Trade Center /$cWilliam Langewiesche.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bNorth Point Press,$c2002.
300 $a205 pages :$bmap ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aMap on lining papers.
505 00 $tThe Inner World --$tThe Rush to Recover --$tThe Dance of the Dinosaurs.
520 1 $a"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.
520 8 $aThroughout the urgent and often dangerous efforts of the months that followed, he became the only writer to be "embedded" in the World Trade Center - that is, to live virtually night and day among the unbuilding crew as they brought order to an instance of chaos unprecedented on American soil.".
520 8 $a"American Ground is a tour of this intense, ephemeral world and those who inhabited it. Langewiesche describes the physical details of the collapse and the ensuing deconstruction of the ruins, capturing in the process the human dramas that were the aftershock. In this inner world, decisions were as spontaneous as the shifting of the piles of debris, and the consequences of failure or mistake might mean the death of hundreds of workers, or the flooding of a large part of underground Manhattan.
520 8 $aAs the difficult work of extracting the rubble and the thousands of dead buried there got under way, and firefighters, police officers, widows, bureaucrats, and profiteers attempted to claim the work - and the tragedy - as their own, the emotional and political implications loomed large as well."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001000147
610 20 $aWorld Trade Center (New York, N.Y. : 1970-2001)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86001484
650 0 $aWrecking$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
650 0 $aIncident command systems$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
650 0 $aSkyscrapers$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xDesign and construction.
650 0 $aConstruction and demolition debris$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
650 0 $aStructural engineering$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
650 0 $aUnderground construction$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
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