American ground, unbuilding the World Trade Center

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Label

American ground, unbuilding the World Trade Center

Statement of responsibility

William Langewiesche

Creator

• Langewiesche, William
• trueLangewiesche, William

Subject

• trueHistory writing -- United States -- September 11, 2001
• Incident command systems -- New York (State) | New York
• trueNew York City
• trueSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
• trueSkyscrapers -- Manhattan, New York City -- Design and construction
• Skyscrapers -- New York (State) | New York -- Design and construction
• trueStructural engineering
• Structural engineering -- New York (State) | New York
• Construction and demolition debris -- New York (State) | New York
• Underground construction -- New York (State) | New York
• World Trade Center (New York, N.Y. : 1970-2001)
• trueWorld Trade Center, New York City
• trueWrecking
• Wrecking -- New York (State) | New York
• trueWrecking debris management
• trueUnderground construction
• trueDisaster relief -- United States

Genre

• trueHistory writing

Language

eng

Summary

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

Award

New York Times Notable Book, 2002

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

974.7/1044

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

HV6432

LC item number

.L364 2002

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult