American Ground
Unbuilding the World Trade Center
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American Ground
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Narrateur(s):
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Richard M. Davidson
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Auteur(s):
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William Langewiesche
Selected as one of the best books of 2002 by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-Times
Within days after September 11, 2001, William Langewiesche had secured unique, unrestricted, round-the-clock access to the World Trade Center site. American Ground is a tour of this intense, ephemeral world and those who improvised the recovery effort day by day, and in the process reinvented themselves, discovering unknown strengths and weaknesses. In all of its aspects—emotionalism, impulsiveness, opportunism, territoriality, resourcefulness, and fundamental, cacophonous democracy—Langewiesche reveals the unbuilding to be uniquely American and oddly inspiring, a portrait of resilience and ingenuity in the face of disaster.
©2002 William Langewiesche (P)2003 Recorded BooksBefore I listened to the epilogue, I was going to comment that the historical account of deconstructing the World Trade Center was fascinating, and a worthwhile listen, despite the author’s characterization of some of the people involved (which I did not appreciate) and failed attempts at humour. As the book could only have been written by the author, based on his access, I chose to continue.
The epilogue brought to light the controversy that erupted upon publication. While it was the author’s right to explain himself, and to a degree defend himself, his comments were so heavily loaded with anger and destain for his critics, that I was left feeling entirely disappointed and needing to shake off his negative energy.
I have written a mixed review of another book by this author (Fly By Wire), but said my concerns would not prevent me from listening to another book by him. Well, that’s changed. On the basis of how I felt after listening to the epilogue to American Ground, I won’t be listening to any more of his books.
Technically interesting, but toxic epilogue
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