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City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center

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The definitive biography of the iconic skyscrapers and the ambitions that shaped them-from their dizzying rise to their unforgettable fall

More than a year after the nation started mourning the lives lost within the attacks at the World Trade Center, it became clear that something else was once being mourned: the towers themselves. They were the biggest and brashest icons that New York, and most likely The usa, has ever produced-magnificent giants that became intimately familiar around the world. Their builders were possessed of a singular determination to create wonders of capitalism in addition to engineering, refusing to admit defeat before natural forces, economics, or politics.

No one knows the history of the towers better than New York Times reporters James Glanz and Eric Lipton. In a vivid, brilliantly researched narrative, the authors re-create David Rockefeller’s ambition to rebuild lower Manhattan, the spirited opposition of local storeowners and powerful politicians, the bold structural innovations that later decided who lived and died, master builder Guy Tozzoli’s last desperate view of the towers on September 11, and the charged and chaotic recovery that could have unraveled the secrets of the buildings’ collapse but as an alternative has left some enduring mysteries.

Like David McCullough’s The Great Bridge, City within the Sky is a riveting story of New York City itself, of architectural daring, human frailty, and a lost American icon.

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