Battle for Ground Zero : Inside the Political Struggle to Rebuild the World Trade Center

from foof2you

After 9/11 one would have thought it would not take 13 years to rebuild and Greenspan looks at many of the issues as to why it took so long. It looks at the political and social issues in rebuilding a site that means different things to different people.

from jdr857

I have read a great many books on the subject of the World Trade Center and September 11. Much of what has been written about pertaining to this topic is about the events that occurred on that day; some of what has been written about has to do with the events before 9/11, such as the building of ...

from Kobzar

On September 11 2001, America was shocked by the death of nearly three thousand citizens in a series of terrorist attacks centered primarily on the World Trade Center [WTC] in New York City's Lower Manhattan. This was the deadliest attack on American soil and it triggered a preoccupation with ret...

from gbelik

The battle over what would be built at Ground Zero had many constituencies, from some of the families of victims who wanted nothing but a memorial to some interests who would put the past behind us and carry on with business as usual. I don't live in NYC and hadn't followed the controversy closel...

from sherman1951

Battle for Ground Zero bills itself as being "inside the political struggle to rebuild the World Trade Center." It does not disappoint. Elizabeth Greenspan has a good ear (and eye) for identifying and reporting the public and many behind the scenes struggles over the control over both the land an...