![]() A man carried a disabled woman 54 floors down to the street. (Most people fleeing the north tower didn’t discover until they got outside that the south had fallen.) The authors lard their tale with surprising and alarming detail. ![]() We know the buildings will fall those inside do not. Their technique is not novel: we move around the buildings, getting to know some folks employed there and learning names and histories of rescue workers. From these sources they’ve pieced together a powerful account of the disaster that hesitates neither to confer laurels nor point fingers. ![]() Two New York Times reporters take us inside the World Trade Center on 9/11 to give us a more capacious view of heroism.ĭwyer ( Subway Lives, 1991, etc.), who won a Pulitzer as part of the group that covered the 1993 WTC bombing, teamed with special-projects editor Flynn to interview scores of survivors and their families the pair also studied e- and voice-mails from those inside. ![]()
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