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Summary: A powerful testiment
Review: The combination of text, transcripts of 911 calls, the names of the deceased, and the powerful visual images makes this the most moving testament to 9/11 that I have spent time with. The text is especially strong and reflective. The transcript of the 911 calls is more powerful than any visual image I saw during the morning and afternoon of September eleventh.
Thank you for publishing such a lovely and even-tempered book. It is a book to which I often return.
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Summary: Really stunning....
Review: There have been lots of books published about 9/11 recently. I've browsed through most at booksores, and I find this one to be the most powerful. I like the other books, but they're mostly just photos. This one, New York September Eleven Two Thousand One, mixes really amazing photographs with essays, poems, and observations that will break your heart AND take you into the head's of the folks working at ground zero. It's a really wonderful tribute to the victims, their families, the rescue workers, and our country. From what I've been able to gather from the front part of the book, the contributors, both photographers and writers, have donated their images and words so that all of the publisher's profits can go to charity. The contributors are, for the most part, amazing writers, thinkers and photographers, like Chomsky, Chopra, Rushdie and on and on. What I liked most, however, were the quieter photos--the one's showing what was happening at ground zero in the days and weeks after the attack--and the written pieces from the non-professional writers, people that just poured their hearts out. Some are famous because of being involved in the attack, others were famous before, but aren't known for spilling their guts so honestly and openly. The ones I thought really did a nice job were Joan Rivers, Richard Dreyfuss and Liam Neeson. Neeson, particularly, is good. He admits that, hey, I'm no writer, but here's what's in my heart and here's what I wish. Good stuff. There's something like 40 such contributors. Also, there's a good piece from the late Carl Sagan reprinted, called Reflections On A Mote of Dust. It really brings the book to a somber but appropriate close. This one is well worth buying. Especially since the proceeds go to charity. I think the spirit of the book is such that it would make a nice gift as well. One thing this book doesn't do which it feels like some of the others do (sorry, but it's true) is sensationalize the attack. There are no exploding buildings on the cover of this book. It's just very a respectful, plain, flat black. It feels like something you could put out on the coffee table without feeling like some sort of ghoul. Like books on the Kennedy assassination, I think this should be in every household.
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Summary: GREAT DISCOVERY
Review: This book is not easy to find. I finally ordered it from Amazon.com and I was amazed by it. I read all the critiques to this book. I usually like or do not like a book. I love this book, it is very factual, accurate and explores the feeling of about 30 people that had somenting to say about 9-11. It does not matter to me who they are and what they do, what matters is that the essays touch on fears that I had and still have. I do not pretend this book to change the world but to give me feeling and images to hang on to. On each essay I can find someting I can relate to and this makes the book special, it makes it personal. Highly recommended.
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Summary: very awesome book
Review: this is a very awesome book it has lots of pictures it also has poems, stories, names of all the people who died. etc..........
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