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Showing posts with label 9/11. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 9/11. Show all posts
Sunday, August 25, 2024

Book Review: We're Not Leaving: 9/11 Responders Tell Their Stories of Courage, Sacrifice, and Renewal

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  We're Not Leaving is a book about the responders of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City, published in 2011 in conjunction with...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Book Review: Debunking 9/11 Myths

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  Debunking 9/11 Myths is a 2006 book by David Dunbar and Brad Reagan. It is a longer version of an article in Popular Mechanics that set ou...
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Blu-Ray/TV Series Review: The Looming Tower

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  The Looming Tower is a 10-episode miniseries that was released on Hulu in 2018. It stars Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Wrenn Schmidt, Bill Ca...
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Book Review: Reluctant Hero

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  Reluctant Hero is a book from 2011 written by Mike Benfonte about his experience during and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Benfonte wor...
Thursday, June 6, 2024

Book Review: The Looming Tower

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  The Looming Tower is a book that was written by Lawrence Wright and initially published in 2006. The book serves as the source material fo...
Friday, May 31, 2024

Book Review: Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror

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  Against All Enemies, first published in 2004, is a book written by the former US head of counterterrorism, Richard Clarke. Clarke held sev...
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Book Review: The Red Bandanna: A Life. A Choice. A Legacy.

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  The Red Bandana is a biography of Wells Crowther, one of the heroes of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Wells worked as an equities t...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Book Review: miracles & fate on 78

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  Miracles and Fate on 78 is a book written by Ari Schonbrun around the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The au...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Book Review: Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad

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  Manhunt is a book published in 2012 and written by Peter Bergen about the effort to find and eventually kill Osama Bin Laden. Bergen is on...
Monday, January 22, 2024

Book Review: Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11

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  Watching the World Change is a book that is about the images and videos taken during and after the 9/11 attacks. The book was written by D...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Book Review: On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal

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  On Top of the World, published in 2003, is the story about Cantor Fitzgerald, the bond trading company that occupied floors 101-105 in the...
Saturday, July 22, 2023

Book Review: Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11

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  Why America Slept is a book by Gerald Posner, probably best known for his book about the JFK assassination, Case Closed. The book was publ...
Saturday, June 24, 2023

Book Review: The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York

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  This is a book published in 2019 about the Windows on the World restaurant (which was actually a collection of a few different Restaurants...
Sunday, June 11, 2023

Book Review: Undaunted: Leadership Amid Growth and Adversity

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  Undaunted is a book that was written in the lead-up to the 20th Anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. It tells the st...
Sunday, June 4, 2023

Book Review: Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11

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  "Ordinary Heroes" is a memoir by FDNY Chief, Joseph Pfeifer, who was one of the first firefighters on the scene at the World Tra...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Book Review: The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda

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  The Black Banners is a book about the investigations against and attempts to capture members of al-Qaeda, really from the time it began to...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11

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  This is a group of stories collected by the author, Damon Dimarco who started collecting the stories within months of the 9/11 attacks. Th...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

Book Review: The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11

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  The Eleventh Day is a book that details pretty much all aspects of the September 11th terrorist attacks, from the leadup to the aftermath....
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Book Review: The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It

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  This is a book written by John Miller (who was an ABC News Correspondent), Michael Stone, and Chris Mitchell about the lead-up to the 9/11...
Friday, February 10, 2023

Book Review: My 9/11-Through inflight Eyes

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  This short book (just under 100 pages) was written about the author's experience on 9/11/01 and how the terrorist attacks affected her...