| After: The Rebuilding and Defending of America in the September 12 Era Contributor(s): Brill, Steven (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743237102 ISBN-13: 9780743237109 Publisher: Simon & Schuster
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2003 Annotation: The critics unanimously agree that brilliant, award-winning reporter and bestselling author Brill has written a powerful and sweeping narrative of the country in the first year of the September 12 era. |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 21st Century - Political Science | Security (national & International) - Political Science | Terrorism |
| Dewey: 973.931 |
| Physical Information: 1.27" H x 6.15" W x 9.21" L (1.72 lbs) 736 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The critics unanimously agree that brilliant, award-winning reporter and bestselling author Steven Brill has written a powerful and sweeping narrative of the country in the first year of the September 12 era. As the pages flutter -- marvels one critic -- in a race to learn the rest of the story we thought we knew so well, Brill takes us from the White House Situation Room to the living rooms of victims' families, from courtrooms to boardrooms, from border crossings to airport tarmacs. We watch as a Customs inspector struggles to protect New York harbor from a dirty bomb; a storekeeper at Ground Zero rebuilds his shoe repair shop; a Silicon Valley entrepreneur lobbies to get his baggage screening systems into every airport; Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge battles the bureaucratic minefields of Washington; a New Jersey widow struggles to help her three children cope with the loss of their father; and John Ashcroft seizes the moment to become the most powerful and controversial attorney general in a generation, while the head of the ACLU tries to block him. The result is a gritty narrative -- and trailblazing journalism -- that inspires us all as it tells the real story of how Americans moved to defend and rebuild their lives and their country. |
Contributor Bio(s): Brill, Steven: - Steven Brill is the founder of Journalism Online, a company designed to create a new, viable business model for journalism to flourish online. He is a feature writer for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and TIME. Brill founded the Yale Journalism Initiative, which recruits and trains journalists. He founded and ran Court TV, The American Lawyer Magazine, and Brill's Content Magazine. He is the author of After: How America Confronted the September 12th Era and The Teamsters. |
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