102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer
________________________________________ The only book on 9/11 to focus solely on the remarkable testimony of those inside the Twin Towers during the attacks. At 8.46 am on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the Twin Towers in New York - reading emails, making calls, eating croissants...
A heart-stopping, meticulous account.. a fitting tribute to the people caught up in one of the great dramas of our time ... a cathartic release * New York Times *
Heartbreaking and inspiring * Boston Herald *
With its tragic and preordained conclusion, the book becomes a tearjerker in the most essential way * Entertainment Weekly *
Writing in a way that confers dignity on each subject ... This is one book that will stay with readers for a long time * People *
Insightful, compassionate and unrelievedley tense * Baltimore Sun *
Heartbreaking and inspiring * Boston Herald *
With its tragic and preordained conclusion, the book becomes a tearjerker in the most essential way * Entertainment Weekly *
Writing in a way that confers dignity on each subject ... This is one book that will stay with readers for a long time * People *
Insightful, compassionate and unrelievedley tense * Baltimore Sun *
Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn, native New Yorkers, veteran newspaper reporters, and winners of many awards together and separately, now work at the New York Times. Dwyer is the co-author of Two Seconds Under The World, an account of the 1993 effort to knock down the World Trade Centre, and of Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted. He is also the author of Subway Lives: 24 Hours in the Life of the New York City Subway. Flynn, a special projects officer at the Times, was the newspaper's police bureau chief on September 11th 2001. He previously worked as a reporter for the New York Daily News, New York Newsday and the Stamford Advocate.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099492566 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099492563 |
| Title | 102 Minutes |
| Author | Jim Dwyer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2005-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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