The Eleventh Day
Author: Summers, Anthony
ISBN: 9780812978094
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 14 Aug 2012
Pages: 656
Format: Paperback / softback
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, I>The Eleventh Day/I> is a "broad-shouldered look at the deceit, destruction, and disaster that followed."--I>The Boston Globe/I>BR>BR>b>FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE /b>br> b>/b>br> For most living Americans, September 11, 2001, is the darkest date in the nation's history. But what exactly happened on 9/11? Could it have been prevented? And what remains unresolved? Here is the first panoramic, authoritative account of that tragic day-from the first brutal actions of the hijackers to our government's flawed response; from the untruths told afterward by U.S. officials to the "elephant in the room" of the 9/11 Commission's report-the clues that point to foreign involvement. i>New York Times/i> bestselling authors Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan write with access to thousands of recently released official documents, raw transcripts, fresh interviews, and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and evaluation. Riveting, revelatory, and thoroughly sourced, i>The Eleventh Day/i> is updated for this edition-with new reporting on a development that the former cochairman of Congress's 9/11 probe calls the most important in years.br> br> This is the essential one-volume work, required reading for us all.br> br> b>"Essential."-i>The Wall Street Journal/i>/b>br> b>/b>br> b>"Meticulous, comprehensive . . . an extraordinary synthesis."-John Farmer, 9/11 Commission senior counsel/b>br> br> b>"This wide-angle look . . . examines the personalities behind the terror plot, U.S. intelligence blunders, the toxic environmental impact on first responders, the march to war, and gray areas in the 9/11 Commission Report."-i>The Washington Post/i>/b>br> b>/b>br> b>"The best available general account of 9/11-soberly written, judiciously weighed, meticulously sourced."-i>The Sunday Times/i>/b>
ISBN: 9780812978094
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 14 Aug 2012
Pages: 656
Format: Paperback / softback
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, I>The Eleventh Day/I> is a "broad-shouldered look at the deceit, destruction, and disaster that followed."--I>The Boston Globe/I>BR>BR>b>FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE /b>br> b>/b>br> For most living Americans, September 11, 2001, is the darkest date in the nation's history. But what exactly happened on 9/11? Could it have been prevented? And what remains unresolved? Here is the first panoramic, authoritative account of that tragic day-from the first brutal actions of the hijackers to our government's flawed response; from the untruths told afterward by U.S. officials to the "elephant in the room" of the 9/11 Commission's report-the clues that point to foreign involvement. i>New York Times/i> bestselling authors Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan write with access to thousands of recently released official documents, raw transcripts, fresh interviews, and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and evaluation. Riveting, revelatory, and thoroughly sourced, i>The Eleventh Day/i> is updated for this edition-with new reporting on a development that the former cochairman of Congress's 9/11 probe calls the most important in years.br> br> This is the essential one-volume work, required reading for us all.br> br> b>"Essential."-i>The Wall Street Journal/i>/b>br> b>/b>br> b>"Meticulous, comprehensive . . . an extraordinary synthesis."-John Farmer, 9/11 Commission senior counsel/b>br> br> b>"This wide-angle look . . . examines the personalities behind the terror plot, U.S. intelligence blunders, the toxic environmental impact on first responders, the march to war, and gray areas in the 9/11 Commission Report."-i>The Washington Post/i>/b>br> b>/b>br> b>"The best available general account of 9/11-soberly written, judiciously weighed, meticulously sourced."-i>The Sunday Times/i>/b>
