American ground, unbuilding the World Trade Center / [print]
William Langewiesche.
- first edition.
- New York : North Point Press, (c)2002.
- 205 pages ; 22 cm.
The inner world -- Rush to recover -- Dance of the dinosaurs.
At the center of the book is the team of engineers, many of them instrumental in building the towers, who now must collaborate in the sad task of disassembling them. Their responses are as dramatic and unpredictable as the shifting pile of rubble and the surrounding "slurry wall" that constantly threatens to collapse, potentially flooding a large part of underground Manhattan. They are also emotional and territorial, as firemen, police, widows, and officials attempt to claim the tragedy-and the difficult work of extracting the rubble and the thousands of dead buried there-as their own.
2002075153
World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.)
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001. Wrecking--New York (State)--New York.