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The sequel to Frank McCourt's memoir of his Irish Catholic boyhood, Read more

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'TIS A GRAND BOOK, !
Poignant,intense, exciting, gutwrenching yet heart warming are the scenes, actions and memories described inthis continuation of an indepth look at the the trials, tribulations and successes of FrankMc Court and his family. As you read it,you "are there" in New York, in Ireland, -at Mam's almost reunion with Frank's father, - in the army with Frank in Europe, - in church,- in the boarding house which provided meager temporary shelter, - in the countless dull mind-numbing jobs he had beforebecoming a teacher,- in the classroom trying to inspire lethargicstudents.With wit, and a lot ofmischievious charm, author Mc Court escorts us through his romantic liasons, marriage and birth of his daughter, -his brothers arrival and existence in New York,- his own "coming of age in America" as he matures, -and the death of his beloved mother, Angela, (Mam).
THE CONTINUING MEMOIR, BY THE AUTHOR OF ANGELA'S ASHES
Frank McCourt has a flowing, gifted writing style that is all his own. This, the second in his memoirs, tells the chapter of his life where he leaves Ireland for a life in America.How one can endure his hardships and still keep a witty sense of humour is nothing short of amazing.Low paying jobs, racial criticism, and scorn await McCourt upon his arrival.
Dissapointing but with a few gems
I felt that he was trying to gain sympathy for his situation unlike the frankness of Angelas Ashes. I was dissapointed with this sequal. He was brave to tell the truth of his situation, however he must have cringed upon reflection of his early life. He does use humor throughout the book and that makes it more bearable to read. I felt like slapping him rather than giving him a hug at the end of this second book. He does tell the truth, to his credit, and doesn't candy coat anything, a continuation of the first book in the context of style. Would recommend this to an older audience, because of the content matter. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Educators    6. Elements In The U.S. Population    7. Emigration & Immigration    8. Ethnic Cultures - General    9. Irish Americans    10. Literary    11. McCourt, Frank    12. Regional Subjects - MidAtlantic    13. Biography & Autobiography / General    14. Immigration & emigration    15. Literature: History & Criticism    16. Social history    17. USA   

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And I thought The Lovely Bones was hard to put down...
I rarely find a book I just Cannot Put Down.One of the rare ones was The Lovely Bones--and it wasn't just the plot.It was the language, the crystal-clear voice-in-your-head narrative that spoke and spoke of pain and sadness and resolve.It was infused with a realism and was both beautiful and haunting.Like the lean, hard and seemingly lengthened muscles of a runner, Sebold's voice is discernable above the din of modern fiction yet it is not haughty or self-involved... Hearing her voice is like the moment you know you are going to be really good friends with someone you just met:comforting and clear, it makes you want to lean closer to absorb it.It made me a devoted fan of Sebold as I am sure you are, too.
A difficult, but engaging read
I suspect I'm like most people who have read this book.I read an interview with Sebold and she said as she was writing "Lovely Bones" she was struggling with the rape scene.Because she had been raped herself, she wasn't able to write about it effectively in "Lovely Bones" until she had dealt with her own stuff.She put down "Lovely Bones", wrote "Lucky", and then picked up and finished "Lovely Bones."Very interesting.
An Incredible and Worthwhile Read, But ...
I was disappointed by the ending. It seemed quite hastily concluded. I wanted more details on her recovery process--how she was able to save herself. That would definitely help readers who have been through similar experiences. ... Read more

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Couldn't Stop Smiling
I loved this book and I'm sure I smiled all the way through it.Everyone loves nostalgia about the good ole days -- meaning, we ALL have our own good old days.But the times he writes about are especially delightful and innocent.The music was great and something everyone and anyone could sing along with.The movies were dreamy. The radio was great and innovative.And best of all were Mom's final words to the young on summer days: Be home before dark!Yes, we used to go out and play.We didn't have play dates; we just played with whoever was there on that day.Sometimes we played kick the can, or tag, or jump rope, or went on long bike rides, or went to town to the small store to look at magazines and comic books and drool over the candy in the glass counters.We may even have had a nickle in our pockets to buy something.
It Made Me Smile
I envy Charles Osgood.He saw and experienced a Baltimore I never did.The stork didn't drop me off in B'more until 1955.I had such a good time in seeing things I remembered from a different perspective.If it's possible, I loved my city just a bit more after reading this.Thanks for the memories and insights.

Nostalgic, YetMean-Spirited
I was drawn to pick up this book when I saw the cover--the picture of the author as a young boy is irresistible.Although the content was interesting, I found myself quickly becoming annoyed by the author's numerous slurs towards our younger generation.I found his words to be increasingly mean-spirited and I finally put the book down for good when he made light of both children and their parents who are faced with the struggle of bipolar disorder.The author reminds me of many older Americans who can't see that the world has changed greatly since the 1940's and that our younger generation has many redeeming characteristics. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. American Journalism    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Childhood Memoir    6. Editors, Journalists, Publishers    7. Historical - General    8. Military    9. Regional Subjects - MidAtlantic    10. U.S. History - World War II (Domestic Aspects)    11. Biography & Autobiography / Military   

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Stories You Never Heard--But Should
I'm writing this on 9/11 . . . we all know what happen this day.This book is the story of what happened next. The aftermath.The recovery.There are heroes in this world that we would never meet if someone didn't tell their story . . . the people that didn't have television specials made about them. The people that used shovels and hardwork to do their part. William Keegan is not only a worthy teller of their story, he's one of the heroes too.CLOSURE is filled with amazing anecdotes, insights, images, and inspirations.I can't reccomend this book enough. I'm telling everyone I know about it . . . and after you read it, you will too. The daunting and massive recovery effort described in this book serves as a beautiful metaphor to what all of America has had to go through, layer by layer, to recover from the devasting impact 9/11 had on our souls. CLOSURE proves that human spirit can endure anything and come out stronger for it. Great book.

The Father of Ground Zero
Lt. William Keegan never expected the horrific job he was about to be put in charge of, "Rescue and Recovery" of Ground Zero. Let me first commend your wife Karen and your three daughters Kristine, Tara, and Rory for the support and love they gave you every day.Without this it would have been an impossible task for you to handle Ground Zero. Your book gives me closure in many ways.There is not one person who can say they didn't know someone that was involved or perished on that sorrowful day.It enlightens me to see how the rescue and recovery was handled and shows how the departments of the PAPD, NYPD and FDNY finally realized that everyone was there for the same reason.Hopefully to find people still alive. In my opinion the book is fantastic and everyone should read it.It tells the details of how you looked in every area hoping to find someone to "Rescue or Recover".This book was written for everyone.Bill Keagan never gave up he was always there trying to bring closure for all the families involved.I'm sure the hardest part of 9-11 was when the rescuers would find a friend.But in the end they had "CLOSURE".Great Book.Totally enlighten me as to what the rescue workers went thru and how they survived during that time.

A story everyone needs to hear
"Closure" is an emotional, informative, and ultimately fascinating account of the Ground Zero recovery efforts, led in part by Lt. William Keegan, the PAPD night commander of the recovery crew. Keegan offers an inside look at the countless obstacles and routine horror the crew encountered at the site on a daily basis, as well as the tolls such unwavering dedication and efforts would take on his family life. Keegan also discusses the NYC politics that came into play during these many months of recovery, which sometimes presented even more obstacles for Keegan and his guys.
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Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Disaster Relief & Rescue Operations    5. Disaster Relief Services    6. New York    7. New York (State)    8. Personal Memoirs    9. Police Division    10. Political Terrorism    11. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.    12. Regional Subjects - MidAtlantic    13. Rescue work    14. September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001    15. United States - 21st Century    16. United States - State & Local - General    17. Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs   

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Boring...
A great portion of the book is very boring. I really felt like rushing through the book. I don't recommend this book to others

If you love baseball...
and even if you know nothing about baseball like me, Kearns Goodwin has hit a home run with "Wait till Next Year."You will learn all about the rivalry between the Mets and the Yankees and the history of Goodwin's beloved Brooklyn Dodgers. She tells all about her heroes Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges and Roy Campanella. All of these great baseball nuggets are woven into her story of growing up in Brooklyn in the '50s, and is so evocative of a time and place that was quintessentially American. This book will make you long for a town like Rockville Centre, sometime between 1949 and 1957.

Sweet Nostalgia
I, too, grew up on Long Island in the 50s and early 60s (two years in Queens and ten years out on "duh oyland".)I'm a few years younger; the Dodgers were already in Hollywood and I rooted for the hated Jankees.But the images of this beautiful memoir were so resonant with my childhood, from soothing sound of Red Barber's voice coming from the tinny transistor radio to the edicts from the diocese of Rockville Centre, read periodically in lieu of a Sunday sermon, mostly asking for more money.
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Subjects:  1. American historians    2. Baseball fans    3. Biography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Historians    7. Historical - U.S.    8. Regional Subjects - MidAtlantic    9. United States    10. Biography & Autobiography / General    11. Biography: general   

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Courageously Honest Memoir
I place Colored People alongside Angela's Ashes as one of the best works of memoir in recent years. He doesn't moralize; he just tells the honest story. This is a story that, to my knowledge, has not been told elsewhere. It is a story about the freedom and comfort and the pain of a segregated commuinty, and the heartbreak that came with leaving some of that world behind. Most things are deeper and more complex than we like to think they are. Colored People brings that concept forward in a way that no other book has. The people whose expressed frustration with not being able to keep the characters straight are missing the point - this isn't a murder mystery and it doesn't make any difference. Buy it. Read it. Share it. I only wish I'd done so when it first came out.

Piedmont childhood
Gates fears that Piedmont, West Virginia will cease to exist.His father felt and instructed him that people of the same race should not cling to each other through habit or fear.The author rebels at the notion that he can't be part of other groups, too. Piedmont is in Mineral county.Piedmont as a whole seems to be graying.The town's identity was bound up by the existence of the Westvaco paper mill.Almost all the colored people in Piedmont worked at the paper mill.Until the 1970's the houses were rented from white landowners.
Excellent memoir - a necessary read!
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is an extraordinary scholar, particularly on African-American issues.He was born and raised in Piedmont, West Virginia during the time of early racial desegregation and, as a black man, was directly influenced by this dramatically historical period.Gates graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a degree in history, then received a Ph.D. in English from Cambridge.
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Subjects:  1. African American scholars    2. African Americans    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Biography/Autobiography    7. Critics    8. Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor    9. People of Color    10. Regional Subjects - MidAtlantic    11. Social life and customs    12. United States    13. West Virginia    14. Biography: general    15. Social Science / African-American Studies   

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Status anxiety
Poor Toby Young. This is the memoir of the British journalist, Toby Young, who changed tack on a promising career in London (including a stint at editing the spiky but ill fated Modern Review during which he managed to piss pretty much everyone off including Robert Maxwell) and tried to make it in New York at the Queen of glossy high society mags, Vanity Fair.
God, I feel stupid...
I suppose the dollar or so I was able to pick this thing up for here at Amazon should have told me something. Young is a really unappealing character and just not very funny. Why he has been paid to follow this thing up with a second book is way beyond me. I too hate this guy.

Self-Skewering and Funny Biography
Toby Young's story begins with a nebulous one-month job offer from "Vanity Fair" in New York.Having just closed his British journalistic enterprise, Young is delighted and hopes to achieve great things in America.His missteps begin with Day 1 - he reports to work dressed in his (British) version of casual, and finds himself mistaken for a messenger.Then en route to his "office," he's shown a broom closet that's his, which he takes to be his changing room - actually, it's an office he shares with another.
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Subjects:  1. 1963-    2. Biography    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Editors, Journalists, Publishers    7. Great Britain    8. Journalists    9. Regional Subjects - MidAtlantic    10. Young, Toby,   

Editorial Review

Jeanne Marie Laskas is 37, with a house, garden, dog, cat, flourishingwriting career--all of the perfect ingredients, in fact, of a happycity-person's life--when a childhood dream resurfaces. It is a farm dream, this"song I couldn't get out of my head," and it would make more sense, she ruefullyadmits, if she were "at least the farm dream Read more

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Immensely Enjoyable Book
As a suburbanite animal/nature lover who has always dreamed of living on a farm, and a devoted Standard Poodle owner (my husband and I are on our third), I was attracted by the title and description of this book, feeling it was something I would enjoy. I was not disappointed. I had to laugh at Jean and Alex's constant description of Marley as, "A STANDARD Poodle, not one of those little yappy things," as we are constantly describing our wonderful dog in similar ways.
An absolute GEM of a book!
I absolutely loved this book - I also laughed and cried along with some of the other reviewers of this book.I got inside this book very quickly, once I picked it up, and didn't stop till the last page was turned. Not only is the subject matter interesting, but you are along with the author on this ride in her book.
Fifty Acres and a Poodle
This book is absolutely delightful. An easy read. I laughed, cried, smiled and was intrigued with the characters... It's everything a good book should be. ... Read more

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And you thought YOUR parents were weird?
Dr. Nuland thought his immigrant father was simply weird or peculiar or just never adjusted to life in America until he was well into medical school, and diagnosed his father's tertiary syphilis by reading about it in a textbook.It explained everything, and in the tradition of the day, his father was never told the truth - not that anything could have been done.By the time he received treatment, his nervous system was already permanently damaged.
A Winner
Haven't read this one yet, but my friend & neighbor said that this is the best book that she ever read!!

Moving, marvelous reading
A most moving, thoughtful, disarmingly candid, disarmingly honest perusal of what it was to grow with an immigrant father apparently deffective in every respect, however full of love for a son both as he was and as he came to be, almost a dissection of human emotions yet a most loving one; we share the awe, mixed love-shame and adventure of the author in discovering the scope of what is a human being and what a human being can be, as he uncovers a past ultimately bountiful with the reward for him of overcoming hindrances and prejudices in a new world. I don't think the author aimed to show this, but by overcoming hindrances and prejudice he ends gaining his own rightful place in that new world and in the process makes his father triumph. The book, and the journey, is a triumph of the human spirit. ... Read more

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Where's the movie?!
I read Making The Wiseguys Weep 4 times. It had me captivated from beginning to end. I was not aware of Jimmy Roselli's music before reading it, but picked it because I am Italian-American and wanted a compelling mafia story. This book paints a picture so vivid of Italian-American culture, the life and times of the "good ol' days" and the amazing experiences of Jimmy Roselli. It made me track down some Roselli albums for his talent is amazing. like casino profits, best used by skimming
This book has much to recommend it. It provides insight into the aftermath of the profliferation of rock in the '60s---the virtual banishing to the wilderness of talented performers committed to, in my opinion, songs on a much higher level than those penned and sung by many of the musically less-than-literate '60s icons. Both songs crafted by Berlin, Porter, et al and the performers who delivered them with depth of feeling and well-honed craft were suddenly visciously shunted aside by both kids caught up in rebellion (somewhat understandable given the times, hell, I was one of them) and profit-driven record companies (sickening and unforgiveable). Gifted singers like Tony Bennett, Roselli, and many others were pretty much hung out to dry as American culture took a nose dive it has yet to recover from ... . This phenomenom, the steamrolling of America's great song book and its interpreters, is well documented in chapter 6 here. Great Book
Five more stars to David Evanier for writing a great story on Jimmy Roselli. After reading the reviews, some people feel that Jimmy is not the greatest person in the world, but I think we can all agree that he is one of the best singers who's story is a story of interest and it was superbly told by David Evanier. ... Read more

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That House on Middagh Street
Thomas Wolf once famously said "only the dead know Brooklyn."There might be some truth in that, but some of us know Brooklyn, N.Y.,U.S.A., pretty well,and are still very much alive.Quite a few people are aware of Brooklyn's brownstone belt, that swath of historic houses stretching from the East River to Prospect Park and beyond.Many of these people would declare Brooklyn Heights the ultimate Brooklyn brownstone neighborhood.It's beautiful, and gets scenic views of Manhattan.It's got history galore--an important Revolutionary War battle was fought here;and it's been, and still is,home to a lot of well-known important people.
The bump and grind of a literary bawdy house
Sherill Tippins has done an amazing job of finding the significant narrative threads in the chaotic convergence of creative lives that occurred in the months before Pearl Harbor when Harper's Bazaar editor George Davis and British expatriate poet W.H. Auden rented a brownstone on 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn Heights and actively recruited other creative artists to live with them. Among the co-renters were Carson McCullers who had recently published her highly acclaimed first novel, "The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter," soon-to-be famous British composer Benjamin Britten and his parnter, singer Peter Pears, unpublished novelists Paul and Jane Bowles, Broadway set designer Oliver Smith, writer Richard Wright and his wife, and burlesque sensation Gypsy Rose Lee, who it turns out was the most reliable in the rent-paying department and joined the little "creative commune" on the condition that she could bring her own cook and maid. Her fiscal reliability and drive along with Auden's willingness to take on the unpleasant role of house disciplinarian (collecting rent and other "dues" and establishing and enforcing many house rules) are probably sufficient explanation for why this menage managed to last the two or three years it did.
Timely and beautifully written
Sherill Tippins' volume fills a tantalizing gap that fans of Auden, McCullers, Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee have long wished could be filled.Most overdue is Tippins' portrait of George Davis: failed literary wunderkind; editor extraordinaire (who "discovered" McCullers and got much-needed writing jobs for her and W. H. Auden in the lean months before Pearl Harbor); husband to Lotte Lenya and the catalyst that re-invented her for American audiences in Marc Blitzstein's staging of Weill's "Threepenny Opera"--the list goes on and on.Davis and Auden are central to Tippins' account and to the amazing colony of artists who called 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn Heights their home in 1940-41.But Tippins gives everyone in that circle his/her due.Her depictions of Auden's rocky romance with Chester Kallman, of Benjamin Britten's coming to terms with his artistic destiny in England, not America, and Gypsy Rose Lee's ability to charm and disarm everyone she met are more than engaging--they are extremely moving.
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?Project Girl?
I must say I am a fan of Janet Mc Donald's books.The first book that I read that had me in stitches was "Spellbound."After reading that one I was inclined to find any others she wrote. I purchased a total three and one of them being "Project Girl."I was pleased with the beginning of the book because she was able to take me into her world as a project girl. She was also able to express the ambiance and love she experienced in her family as a child with her readers.She however lost me from there on. I must say her redundant mentioning of how smart she is wore on my last nerve.I wanted to put the book away and forget about finishing it, but made myself after all I paid for it.I just wish the book could have lived up to its name and relied less on proving superfluous points to her readers.I am still a fan of the author; after all she is only human.

An inspiring story, brillantly written
Few books I have read in my life compare to this incredible story of triumph in the face of adversity. I could not put the book down. Ms. McDonald's conveys her rise from the projects of New York to the dorms of Vassar to the salons of Paris with openness and humor.She bravely uses excerpts from her journal to convey some of the most harrowing times.A gifted writer, we can only hope the sequel will appear soon.

This Should be your Project to read
Great novel...older students can get a real look at life. Things could be worst for some of today's students, but this novel should make them see that. You can still do great things in life when you are dealt a no so great hand. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1953-    2. African American women    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Biography/Autobiography    7. Gifted girls    8. McDonald, Janet,    9. New York    10. New York (State)    11. People of Color    12. Public housing    13. Regional Subjects - MidAtlantic    14. Women    15. Biography: general    16. History / Africa    17. McDonald, Janet    18. USA   

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Stocking Stuffer of a Book
Yes, it is a tiny book.Even though I read the review here that mentions that, when it arrived this week I was surprised.It is something he wrote for a magazine way back when.The Brooklyn he wrote about has changed, yet again.Did any of us think we would live to see Brooklyn become so expensive you couldn't afford to live there!It has happened, my friends.This book is a history of the borough and the area.NYC changes like the fall leaves.It grows and grows and changes and changes.He captured the Brooklyn of his time so elloquently you feel as if he lived 100 years ago.I am going to give this book to all my friends for the December holidays.It will fit nicely in a Christmas stocking.Truman Capote's books, now more than ever, are a must read.Other than Dominick Dunne, who do we have that writes so well and transports us to these exotic places with exotic people we would never have an opportunity to meet?You will put this book in a special place so everyone can see it.I already have.

Don't need to save much time for this small gem
I'll post a more extensive review later, when I've had time to do more than scan the book.But I want to warn buyers that it's a very slim, undersized book of only 43 pages, with lots of space between the lines.If Capote was paid by the word for this article-turned-book, he didn't make much. Another winner by Capote...
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Subjects:  1. 1924-    2. 1924-1984    3. 20th century    4. American - General    5. Authors, American    6. Biography    7. Biography & Autobiography    8. Biography / Autobiography    9. Biography/Autobiography    10. Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)    11. Capote, Truman,    12. Homes and haunts    13. Intellectual life    14. Literary    15. New York    16. New York (State)    17. Regional Subjects - MidAtlantic    18. American English    19. Biography: general    20. Capote, Truman    21. Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -    22. Travel / United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, PA)   

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Awesome Read!
This book is a truly inspirational read. I haven't quite finished yet, but with every page comes more heart. I, like most others that have or will read this book, feel such an emotional draw to both Greg and Lauren, and my heart breaks over everything they went through. Reading this book not only instills a new found hope, but also a new understanding of what exactly it was like to have been in the shoes of people who were through so much and lost so much that terrible day 9/11/2001. Not as good as expected
I had really high hopes for this book and was really looking forward to reading it.I'm glad that I paid a dollar for it used because my money would have been wasted at much more than that.
Dear Alex
There is a review on this book that you can read by a reviewer named Alex that I think all would find very informative.He is clearly a lot smarter, and by all means a lot deeper, than the writer of this book, and he is not afraid to tell you that.His superior intellect has come to the brilliant conclusion that a wealthy, and therefore soulless, burn victim is much less sympathetic than a poor, prolietariet one.He was also upset that Mr. Manning, with all of his money, could not buy himself better opinions on life, love and 9/11 other than the "banal" ones he professed in this book.
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We Owe Them a Debt
For all the crowds who were compelled to come to Ground Zero in those first traumatic months to see for themselves, pay their respects or simply offer moral support, most did not get close enough to see what these men and women who worked "The Pile" saw.Their lives will never be the same.Dedicated first and foremost to bringing home the victims, cutting a giant tangle of twisted steel and pushing compressed concrete--1.8 million tons of "debris"--the ironworkers, heavy equipment operators and other tradesmen who worked the site were heroic in their selfless determination to work fast and see the job through to the end.Reporters were not allowed inside and workers who talked to them could be fired.Unprepared for the horror they would see but pushing through, day after day to get the job done, these men and women came together in an unspoken bond which could not be breached, even by members of their own family.This is a story everyone should know.God bless them all.

We owe a debt of gratitude
The "outside world" owes a debt of gratitude to the men and women who worked hard to respectfully recover those who were killed on 9/11.
9/11 HEROS & ANGELS
This book is a terrific account of the story of the recovery from the Pile to the Pit at the WTC Site. In contrast with the twisted and bitter 'American Ground' written by William Langewiesche some years ago, 'Nine Months's firsthand hand accounts from the rank and file men and women from the FDNY, NYPD and Constuction Trade show the human efforts and bursting hearts that forged those involved in the recovery into a band of brothers. Their desperate efforts and hopes again inspire us through this account.
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Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. Construction workers  &