Battle for Ground Zero: Inside the Political Struggle to

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

In the aftermath of 9/11, Americans came together in a way not seen for a generation, pledging unity to rebuild after the horrific loss of the Twin Towers. People were signing up to go to war; rescue workers were laboring to clear rubble. But instead of becoming a rallying symbol in the fight against terrorism, Ground Zero has been plagued by intense conflict and controversy from the very start. Battle for Ground Zero goes behind the scenes of this fight to rebuild, revealing how grieving families, commercial interests, and politicking bureaucrats clashed at every step of the way, confounding progress and infuriating the public. Since the fall of 2001, author Elizabeth Greenspan has been documenting the dramaâ€”conducting interviews with neighborhood residents, architects, officials, rescue workers, and victims' relatives, as well as key New York players like uber-developer Larry Silverstein, and Governor Pataki. Here she provides a warts-and-all look at this pivotal decadeâ€”from the bitter feuding between city officials and victims' families, to the endless controversy over the memorial design, to the fraught tenth anniversary, against a still-unfinished building. Publishing just as the memorial is finally completed, Battle for Ground Zero is an exhaustively researched reminder of how long it took to put a brave face on the horror of 9/11.

Country	USA
Author	Elizabeth Greenspan
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9781137365477
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	St. Martin's Press
Manufacturer	St. Martin's Press
NumberOfPages	288
PublicationDate	2013-08-20
Publisher	St. Martin's Press
ReleaseDate	2013-08-20
Studio	St. Martin's Press

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

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