Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11

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Better and more comprehensive than any prior account. . . . Those of us who lived through those days will find the book cathartic; those rising generations who were too young to remember 9/11 or who werent yet born will find it revelatory. John Farmer senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission and author of The Ground Truth With his rigorous research and moral clarity Mitchell Zuckoff has provided us with an invaluable service. He has deepened our understanding of what happened on 9/11 and recorded the voices of the victims and the survivors. Whats more he has ensured that we never forget. David Grann #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon 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 lifeand in some cases bringing back to lifethe 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.