@article{648942,
      recid = {648942},
      author = {Greenspan, Elizabeth,},
      title = {Battle for ground zero : inside the political struggle to  rebuild the World Trade Center /},
      pages = {xiii, 257 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :},
      abstract = {In the aftermath of 9/11, Americans came together in a way  not seen for a generation, pledging unity to rebuild after  the horrific loss of the Twin Towers. People were signing  up to go to war; rescue workers were laboring to clear  rubble. But instead of becoming a rallying symbol in the  fight against terrorism, Ground Zero has been plagued by  intense conflict and controversy from the very start.  "Battle for Ground Zero" goes behind the scenes of this  fight to rebuild, revealing how grieving families,  commercial interests, and politicking bureaucrats clashed  at every step of the way, confounding progress and  infuriating the public. Since the fall of 2001, author  Elizabeth Greenspan has been documenting the  drama--conducting interviews with neighborhood residents,  architects, officials, rescue workers, and victims'  relatives, as well as key New York players like  über-developer Larry Silverstein, and Governor Pataki. Here  she provides a warts-and-all look at this pivotal  decade--from the bitter feuding between city officials and  victims' families, to the endless controversy over the  memorial design, to the fraught tenth anniversary, against  a still-unfinished building. Publishing just as the  memorial is finally completed, "Battle for Ground Zero" is  an exhaustively researched reminder of how long it took to  put a brave face on the horror of 9/11.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/648942},
}