Description
Within days after September 11, 2001, William Langewiesche had secured distinctive, unrestricted, round the clock get entry to to the World Trade Center website. American Ground is a tour of this intense, ephemeral world and people who improvised the recovery effort day-to-day, and within the process reinvented themselves, discovering unknown strengths and weaknesses. In all of its aspects–emotionalism, impulsiveness, opportunism, territoriality, resourcefulness, and fundamental, cacophonous democracy–Langewiesche unearths the unbuilding to be uniquely American and oddly inspiring, a portrait of resilience and ingenuity within the face of disaster.