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City in the Sky : The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center by James Glanz and Eric Lipton (2003, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHolt & Company, Henry
ISBN-100805074287
ISBN-139780805074284
eBay Product ID (ePID)2481603
Product Key Features
Book TitleCity in the Sky : the Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / 21st Century, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa)
FeaturesRevised
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, History
AuthorJames Glanz, Eric Lipton
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight28.2 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-061081
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal720/.483/097471
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisThe definitive biography of the iconic skyscrapers and the ambitions that shaped them-from their dizzying rise to their unforgettable fallMore than a year after the nation began mourning the lives lost in the attacks on the World Trade Center, it became clear that something else was being mourned: the towers themselves. They were the biggest and brashest icons that New York, and possibly America, has ever produced-magnificent giants that became intimately familiar around the globe. Their builders were possessed of a singular determination to create wonders of capitalism as well as engineering, refusing to admit defeat before natural forces, economics, or politics.No one knows the history of the towers better than New York Times reporters James Glanz and Eric Lipton. In a vivid, brilliantly researched narrative, the authors re-create David Rockefeller's ambition to rebuild lower Manhattan, the spirited opposition of local storeowners and powerful politicians, the bold structural innovations that later determined who lived and died, master builder Guy Tozzoli's last desperate view of the towers on September 11, and the charged and chaotic recovery that could have unraveled the secrets of the buildings' collapse butinstead has left some enduring mysteries.Like David McCullough's The Great Bridge, City in the Sky is a riveting story of New York City itself, of architectural daring, human frailty, and a lost American icon., The definitive biography of the iconic skyscrapers and the ambitions that shaped them-from their dizzying rise to their unforgettable fall.
LC Classification NumberNA6233.N5W6742 2003
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