TY - BOOK AU - Langewiesche,William TI - American ground, unbuilding the World Trade Center AV - HV6432.L277.A447 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - North Point Press KW - World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.) KW - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 KW - Wrecking KW - New York (State) KW - New York N1 - The inner world --; Rush to recover --; Dance of the dinosaurs; 2 N2 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol031/2002075153.html ER -