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Rubble : how the 9/11 families rebuilt their lives and inspired America / Bob Kemper.
Van Pelt Library HV6432.7 .K454 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kemper, Bob.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terrorism victims' families--United States.
- Terrorism victims' families.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 215 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2011]
- Summary:
- Kemper (assistant managing editor, the Washington Examiner) provides a journalistic account of how family members of victims of the September 11th, 2001 attacks banded together in different groups in order to push a variety of agendas upon a frequently reluctant government, from pressuring Congress to set up an investigation into the government's failures on that day to pressuring New York City to search for and remove loved ones' remains from the Fresh Kills land fill. Distributed in the US by Books International. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Part I Wake-up Calf
- 1 Calamity on the Move 3
- 2 "We're Getting Hijacked" 7
- 3 "America Is Under Attack" 14
- 4 Box Cutters and Knives 18
- 5 The Towers Collapse 22
- 6 "Our Great Nation Is Being Tested" 27
- Part II Seeking King George
- 7 The Pile 35
- 8 "Acts of War" 39
- 9 Body Parts and Poison Gas 45
- 10 The Assassination Plot That Wasn't 50
- 11 The "Nameless, Faceless" Enemy 55
- Part III Post-traumatic Growth
- 12 "It's Okay to Cry" 63
- 13 A Circle of Angels 69
- 14 Victims Become Heroes 76
- 15 God's Work 85
- 16 What a Life's Worth 93
- Part IV 9/11 Families versus the White House
- 17 The Quest for Answers Begins 103
- 18 The Families Arrive in Washington 109
- 19 The Blame Game 114
- 20 Torpedoed by the White House 124
- 21 Victory and Disappointment 130
- 22 "Do Your Job" 136
- 23 Access Denied 145
- 24 Irresistible Force Meets Immovable Object 151
- 25 Tick Tock, Tick Tock 159
- 26 White House Under New Attack 166
- 27 "Failure of Imagination" 174.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781612341095
- 1612341098
- OCLC:
- 712780899
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