September 11 2001: Attack On New York City
by Hampton, Wilborn
- Used
- Near Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0736231617
- ISBN 13
- 9780736231619
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Hampton-Brown, the exchange, 2003. Soft cover. Near Fine. Squarish octavo, softcover, VG in gray pictorial wraps showing the towering twin towers in the Manhattan skyline before they were attacked and downed. 166 pp. with many photos of the disaster.The stories of the New Yorkers who lived through the events are heartbreaking and frightening, but they show how tragedy can change everyday people into heroes.
Synopsis
Wilborn Hampton was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1940, and was a reporter for U.P.I. from 1963 to 1979. Since 1979, Wilborn Hampton has worked at the NEW YORK TIMES as an editor and as a theater and book critic. On the morning of September 11, 2001, he was preparing to go to work when two hijacked planes flew into the World Trade Center in New York City. Wilborn Hampton undertook to write the story of that awful day because he felt that "no single event since the attack on Pearl Harbor has so traumatized and galvanized the American people as the attacks on September 11. It seemed important, especially for younger readers who may have questions in years to come about what happened, to try to put on paper an account of what took place in New York City that day. And the only way to begin to understand the horror of what occurred on September 11 was to recount it through the eyes of those who eperienced it firsthand." From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83843
- Title
- September 11 2001: Attack On New York City
- Author
- Hampton, Wilborn
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0736231617
- ISBN 13
- 9780736231619
- Publisher
- Hampton-Brown, the exchange
- Date Published
- 2003
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