American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center

✍ Scribed by Langewiesche, William

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux;North Point Press
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Edition: 1st pbk. ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The inner world -- Rush to recover -- Dance of the dinosaurs -- Afterword to the paperback edition.;At the center of the book is the team of engineers, many of them instrumental in building the towers, who now must collaborate in the sad task of disassembling them. Their responses are as dramatic and unpredictable as the shifting pile of rubble and the surrounding "slurry wall" that constantly threatens to collapse, potentially flooding a large part of underground Manhattan. They are also emotional and territorial, as firemen, police, widows, and officials attempt to claim the tragedy-and the difficult work of extracting the rubble and the thousands of dead buried there-as their own.

✦ Table of Contents

The inner world --
Rush to recover --
Dance of the dinosaurs --
Afterword to the paperback edition.

✦ Subjects

Construction and demolition debris--New York (State)--New York;Incident command systems--New York (State)--New York;Skyscrapers--New York (State)--New York--Design and construction;Structural engineering--New York (State)--New York;Wrecking--New York (State)--New York;September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001;Skyscrapers--Design and construction;Structural engineering;Underground construction;Wrecking;Construction and demolition debris;Incident command systems;World Trade Center (New York, N.Y. : 197