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

Name: City in the Sky The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center
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ISBN: 9780805076912

ISBN-10: 0805076913

ISBN-13: 9780805076912

Edition: Revised

Authors: James Glanz, Eric Lipton

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"A fascinating story . . . Those who delighted in Caro's Power Broker will relish City in the Sky." -Thomas Bender, The New York Times Book Review The World Trade Center was the biggest and brashest icon that New York has ever produced-a pair of magnificent giants that became intimately familiar around the globe. In this vivid, brilliantly researched narrative, New York Times reporters James Glanz and Eric Lipton re-create the life of the World Trade Center from its genesis in David Rockefeller's ambition to rebuild lower Manhattan to the spirited battles with local storeowners and powerful politicians who opposed it, to the bold structural engineering innovations that would later…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 8/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Prologue



David's Turn



Gambit



Street Fighters



Surprise, Serenity, Delight



Steel Balloons



Endgame



Pyramids on the Hudson



City in the Sky



9/11: The Collapse



Ruins


Epilogue


Sources and Notes


Bibliography and Interviews


Acknowledgments


Index