Power at Ground Zero: Politics, Money, and the Remaking of Lower Manhattan

by Lynne Sagalyn and Lynne B. Sagalyn

Book Overview

The destruction of the World Trade Center complex on 9/11 set in motion a chain of events that fundamentally transformed both the United States and the wider world. War has raged in the Middle East for a decade and a half, and Americans have become accustomed to surveillance, enhanced security, and periodic terrorist attacks. But the symbolic locus of the post-9/11 world has always been "Ground Zero"--the sixteen acres in Manhattan's financial district...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190607025
• ISBN13: 9780190607029
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 938 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.9" x 10.1"