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Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11.
This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day.
In the days and months after 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff, then a reporter for the Boston Globe, wrote about the attacks, the victims, and their families. After further years of meticulous reporting, Zuckoff has filled Fall and Rise with voices of the lost and the saved. The result is an utterly gripping book, filled with intimate stories of people most affected by the events of that sunny Tuesday in September an out-of-work actor stuck in an elevator in the North Tower of the World Trade Center; the heroes aboard Flight 93 deciding to take action; a veteran trapped in the inferno in the Pentagon; the fire chief among the first on the scene in sleepy Shanksville; a team of firefighters racing to save an injured woman and themselves; and the men, women, and children flying across country to see loved ones or for work who suddenly faced terrorists bent on murder.
Fall and Rise will open new avenues of understanding for everyone who thinks they know the story of 9/11, bringing to life—and in some cases, bringing back to life—the extraordinary ordinary people who experienced the worst day in modern American history.
Destined to be a classic, Fall and Rise will move, shock, inspire, and fill hearts with love and admiration for the human spirit as it triumphs in the face of horrifying events.
Ebook Fall and Rise The Story of 9/11 eBook Mitchell Zuckoff
"The attacks of September 11, 2001 are one of those events that people never forget the details. It's one of those seminal moments in our lives; we never forget where we were, what we were doing. MSNBC replays their broadcast moment by moment on the succeeding years. (Or, at least they did til last year. I certainly hope they go back to broadcasting it this year and going forward.) The fascinating thing about watching the rebroadcast is that you can tell how scared...and professional, the news people were, despite the knowing that tens of thousands of people could have been killed that day, if the buildings hadn't been evacuated so well.
There have been many books - both fiction and non-fiction - written about 9/11. Now Boston Globe journalist, Mitchell Zukoff, has written one of the definitive books about the attacks and the people behind it, affected by it, and horrified by it. His book, "Rise and Fall: The Story of 9/11", uses the lives of pilots, passengers, civil responders, Osama bin Ladin and the hijackers, as well as many others whose lives either ended or were changed irretrievably that day. One of the sadder stories is that of two friends and the young daughter of one from Boston. They traveled separately to Los Angeles; one woman on the American flight...and her friend and child on the United flight. All three were killed that day.
In addition to looking at the deed and the people, Zuckoff examines the official response by our government agencies, both the FAA and law enforcement. Agencies didn’t work together and no one officially cared if students at flying academies in the South West and Florida only wanted to know how to fly straight ahead and not know how to take off and land. “No Fly†lists were not extensive and the names were routinely ignored.
Zukoff does an excellent job of going behind the scenes and asking questions I hadn't heard addressed before. His writing is smooth and the book is a pleasure - despite the topic - to read.
By the way, he recommends several other books on the subject, including "102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers" by New York Times reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn. It explains how the Towers were evacuated and more lives were saved."
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Fall and Rise The Story of 9/11 eBook Mitchell Zuckoff Reviews :
Fall and Rise The Story of 9/11 eBook Mitchell Zuckoff Reviews
- The attacks of September 11, 2001 are one of those events that people never forget the details. It's one of those seminal moments in our lives; we never forget where we were, what we were doing. MSNBC replays their broadcast moment by moment on the succeeding years. (Or, at least they did til last year. I certainly hope they go back to broadcasting it this year and going forward.) The fascinating thing about watching the rebroadcast is that you can tell how scared...and professional, the news people were, despite the knowing that tens of thousands of people could have been killed that day, if the buildings hadn't been evacuated so well.
There have been many books - both fiction and non-fiction - written about 9/11. Now Boston Globe journalist, Mitchell Zukoff, has written one of the definitive books about the attacks and the people behind it, affected by it, and horrified by it. His book, "Rise and Fall The Story of 9/11", uses the lives of pilots, passengers, civil responders, Osama bin Ladin and the hijackers, as well as many others whose lives either ended or were changed irretrievably that day. One of the sadder stories is that of two friends and the young daughter of one from Boston. They traveled separately to Los Angeles; one woman on the American flight...and her friend and child on the United flight. All three were killed that day.
In addition to looking at the deed and the people, Zuckoff examines the official response by our government agencies, both the FAA and law enforcement. Agencies didn’t work together and no one officially cared if students at flying academies in the South West and Florida only wanted to know how to fly straight ahead and not know how to take off and land. “No Fly†lists were not extensive and the names were routinely ignored.
Zukoff does an excellent job of going behind the scenes and asking questions I hadn't heard addressed before. His writing is smooth and the book is a pleasure - despite the topic - to read.
By the way, he recommends several other books on the subject, including "102 Minutes The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers" by New York Times reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn. It explains how the Towers were evacuated and more lives were saved. - I am on page 166 and burst into tears reading about the phone call between Esther and Elizabeth. Having lived through this day in an apartment not far from the Pentagon, I’m not sure why I’m subjecting myself to this sad book. It’s not as if I need a reminder of the constant horrors we human beings inflict on each other on a daily basis because of such superficial crap as the differences in religion, race, and the dirt we live on plus money and politics. Maybe it’s to seek out the feelings I remembered after 9/11 of unity, charity, caring, helping, before all the fear crept in. After I finish this, I may go find a deserted island to live on.
- I can not put this book down. Gripping, tragic, and devastatingly beautiful all at the same time.
- I purchased this book a day after it was published. I just finished it and all I can say is — it was THAT good. Riveting, unparalleled emotion create what may be the top book I’ve read about that dark, September day. The stories are haunting; you know how the stories end, and yet you find yourself rooting for everyone written about in this book. Incredible!
- I just this very moment finished listening to the most amazing interview on NPR Radio, with Mitchell Zuckoff, the author of "Fall and Rise The Story of 9/11". Michael's deeply intimate story of what happened that fateful day, serves to introduce us to people whom we have never met, but who we shall now never forget. Michael has heartfeltedly shared with us their lives...before and during, and in some lucky cases, after that cataclysmic day.
Listening to Michael tell their stories, well it broke my heart. But it also served...more importantly...to break my heart OPEN! That is what hearing the truth of what humankind can RISE TO in the darkest and deadliest of days...like 9/11.
I hear their stories, and I feel called to show up for my own life, and the lives of those around me...in a way that seeks to create a life of greater measure, for us all.
Thank You Michael. This book...these stories...these people...are the impetus for reimagining what we all might rise to, if we but open our hearts and minds in loving concert with one another. - When you move through this book, it's like walking through a haunted house with the lights off. You know the gut-punches are coming, and they do. One after another they pile up; things that were missed, a report from the Spring of 2001 warning of an impending attack by Bin Laden that went unheeded, air traffic personnel faced with a situation they had never imagined in their wildest dreams, one of the hijackers flying under his own name even though he was on the FBI's no-fly list.
Then there are the people; there are countless looks into the normal, everyday lives of the men, women and children murdered by the terrorists; each time you read about someone's honeymoon plans that would never materialize, someone carrying a baby who would never know their father, or someone bidding their spouse goodbye with a quick peck on the cheek, it's another dagger to the heart.
It's a necessary book, and one that will not easily leave your mind...nor should it. If you watched the excellent multi-part National Geographic Channel documentary on 9/11, you will get a great deal out of this book.
As a radio broadcaster who was on the air the moment the second plane hit, and with a newly-adopted 2 year old daughter, 9/11 resonates with me, as I'm sure it does everyone. Read this book and learn more about the worst day in the history of America.
