9/11 And Books
Amazon.com calls it an important modern historic document and "a comprehensive and alarming look at one of the biggest intelligence failures in history and the events that led up to it."
If the weighty report from the 9/11 Commission feels too cumbersome to read, then this presentation might work better. It's streamlined and, as the title makes clear, it's generously illustrated.
People magazine calls this book "an eye-opener." Since Sept. 11, the former mayor often has been portrayed as hero and saint. Barrett and Collins, who is a senior producer at CBSNews.com, put that assessment under the microscope and come up with a picture that's not so pretty.
Publishers Weekly calls it a "tender and entertaining" novel "about a group of privileged New Yorkers who are led to reassess their lives --: and become in many ways better people -- in the wake of the 9/11 attacks."
Middletown, N.J., suffered the "largest concentrated death toll" on Sept. 11 of any other place in the U.S., with nearly 50 victims. Sheehy spent almost two years talking to survivors, relatives and friends and drawing a portrait of how one town wrestled with the emotional and social fallout of the tragedy.