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So much was lost on September 11, 2001. On that morning, the World Trade Center was a veritable mini-city, bustling with activity and with over 14,000 people beginning their workday at desks and in offices, or otherwise on the job, as they had so many days before. The human loss is made more clear in this stunning reportage that reconstructs the events of that morning from testimony from those who made it out, and also from the amazing, and heart breaking, messages in emails and phone calls from those who did not. Just what took place inside the Twin Towers that day? And why did so many die? The focus here is on those who matter, the workers, visitors, and first-responders whose stories are told by two New York newspapermen in a narrative that brings order to the the chaos caused by terror. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2005.
| Size | | Height: | 5.8 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 5.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Though 102 MINUTES isn't dense, it is immensely, and at times maddeningly, detailed....[It] is an essential and poignant addition to the already enormous body of writing on 9/11."
Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) - Brian Palmer (01/02/2005)
""[A] heart-stopping, meticulous account....I suspect that you, like me, will read this book in a single suspenseful sitting, even though we know the ending."
New York Times Book Review - James B. Stewart (01/09/2005)
"[A] masterpiece of reporting....102 MINUTES is a book riveting enough to be read in a sitting, but I suspect that many readers will find it too emotionally debilitating to do so....[A] brilliant and troubling book...."
New York Times - Kevin Baker (01/21/2005)
"It is unfortunate that 102 MINUTES, rendered so humanely, and which should be hailed as a poignant, objective homage to survivors and victims, may be better remembered as a rebuking technological eulogy."
Bloomsbury Review - Wayne K. Sheldrake
"With its single-minded focus on the people trapped in the Twin Towers, 102 MINUTES is a profoundly humane book."
Entertainment Weekly (12/30/2005)
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