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Title: City in the Sky : The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center by James Glanz, Eric Lipton ISBN: 0-8050-7428-7 Publisher: Times Books Pub. Date: 12 November, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great history of the Twin Towers and their people
Comment: City in the Sky gives us a balanced and fascinating look at the conception, creation, life and destruction of the World Trade Center. The human interest inherent in the story of the construction and loss of the Twin Towers is balanced with a detailed, yet easily understandable explanation of the physics involved in both. New York Times reporters Glanz and Lipton have created a very readable book on the weightiest of subjects, acknowledging the tremendous human loss without excessive sentimentality.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Story of The Trade Center-From Birth To Death and Beyond
Comment: Everything about the twin towers of the World Trade Center was outsize, from their conception to their creation and their destruction. New York Times reporters James Glanz and Eric Lipton have provided an admirable overview of their story in "City in the Sky." The two authors deftly weave together the political, economic, architectural, engineering and human issues that were central to the towers' rise and fall.
The story began in the 1950s with an idea advocated by David Rockefeller of the Chase Manhattan Bank. The project came under the sponsorship of the Port Authority of New York, the only public agency with the resources or clout to accomplish it; the use of public funds to build two giant office buildings was justified as providing a "port on land" for importers and exporters, foreign divisions of businesses and the like. The autocratic boss of the Port Authority, Austin Tobin, did battle with the political and business leaders who potentially stood in the way of the project as the 1960s unfolded. Tobin assigned Guy Tozzoli of his staff to oversee the project, and he was there until the unimaginable day of their destruction almost four decades later.
A rising young architect named Minoru Yamasaki was commissioned to design the largest buildings ever built. While Yamasaki and his staff were at work in their Midwestern studios, the merchants who would be displaced by the project fought--and almost won--a desperate struggle for survival. Meanwhile, researchers in distant parts of the country were trying to answer the questions about how the buildings and the people inside them would react to the forces of wind and what might happen if they were ever struck by an airplane.
The towers finally opened, but in the economic climate of the mid-1970s, they became half-empty white elephants. But as things improved, the center was soon full (although the original concept of a "port on land" had to be abandoned) and the structures that had once been seen as alien and oversized now became a symbol of New York's, and the nation's economic might....a symbol that provided an inviting target for terrorists. The heroic rescue and demolition efforts that followed 9-11 bring the book, but not the story of the World Trade Center, to a close. Various theories have been advanced, but a federal report on the cause of the towers' collapse is still to come; and although a design has been chosen, the debate over the form the memorial at the site should take still continues.
Glanz and Lipton have written a compelling and informative book.--William C. Hall
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating, gripping biography
Comment: An amazing story about people more than buildings. Truly unputdownable. Read this and know more about new york city than anyone you know. It's not about 9/11 -- it's about new york city and all new yorkers. The story is all the more riveting because we all know the terrifying ending. Highly recommended!
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Title: Higher : A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City by Neal Bascomb ISBN: 0385506600 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center by Daniel Okrent ISBN: 0670031690 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 25 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea by Robert K. Massie ISBN: 0679456716 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle ISBN: 0871138743 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Parting the Desert : The Creation of the Suez Canal by Zachary Karabell ISBN: 0375408835 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 20 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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