Recommendation
- At October 10, 2004
- By Bob Howe
- In Blog Posts
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I highly recommend American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center by William Langewiesche. It’s a great overview of the technical, tribal, psychological and political struggles over the recovery and demolition work at ground zero. Langewiesche spent months on the site himself, and the book is an insider’s view of the process. You know my reading habits: I read it in a sitting (which is why I’m posting this at 5:54 a.m.).
You might notice that this is a locked post: it’s not for my list, just you (Bill) and you (Ken). I don’t know why, exactly, but it feels right.
shunn
I picked this up late last week. Laura’s reading it now — I’ll read it when she’s done. Thanks for the recommendation.
admin
Cool: I’d be interested to hear what you guys think.
By the way, thank you again for “In The Shadow of No Towers.” What an amazing book (which I also read at a sitting). I don’t know if you had time to look at it, but it has a bunch of eerily appropriate archival strips from the turn of the (last) century. Great, great read.
shunn
We’re glad you liked it! We have a copy ourselves, and were pretty sure you’d enjoy it too.