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Zusatztext “Essential.”— The Wall Street Journal “Meticulous! comprehensive . . . an extraordinary synthesis.”—John Farmer! 9/11 Commission senior counsel “This wide-angle look . . . examines the personalities behind the terror plot! U.S. intelligence blunders! the toxic environmental impact on first responders! the march to war! [and] gray areas in the 9/11 Commission Report.”— The Washington Post “The best available general account of 9/11—soberly written! judiciously weighed! meticulously sourced.”— The Sunday Times “A sweeping report on the Saudis’ broad involvement in the 9/11 attacks.”— Vanity Fair “Tick-tock journalism . . . a micro-feel for a macro-event.”— The Star-Ledger “Stunning . . . retells [the] events with unbridled drama.”— Boston Sunday Globe Informationen zum Autor Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan Klappentext FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE For most living Americans, September 11, 2001, is the darkest date in the nation's history. But what exactly happened on 9/11? Could it have been prevented? And what remains unresolved? Here is the first panoramic, authoritative account of that tragic day-from the first brutal actions of the hijackers to our government's flawed response; from the untruths told afterward by U.S. officials to the "elephant in the room" of the 9/11 Commission's report-the clues that point to foreign involvement. New York Times bestselling authors Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan write with access to thousands of recently released official documents, raw transcripts, fresh interviews, and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and evaluation. Riveting, revelatory, and thoroughly sourced, The Eleventh Day is updated for this edition-with new reporting on a development that the former cochairman of Congress's 9/11 probe calls the most important in years. This is the essential one-volume work, required reading for us all. "Essential."-The Wall Street Journal "Meticulous, comprehensive . . . an extraordinary synthesis."-John Farmer, 9/11 Commission senior counsel "This wide-angle look . . . examines the personalities behind the terror plot, U.S. intelligence blunders, the toxic environmental impact on first responders, the march to war, [and] gray areas in the 9/11 Commission Report."-The Washington Post "The best available general account of 9/11-soberly written, judiciously weighed, meticulously sourced."-The Sunday TimesONE Did the story begin twenty years ago during the Gulf War, when a great American army was installed in Saudi Arabia, a land sacred to Muslims? Did it begin in 1948, when the United States recognized the declaration of a Jewish state to be known as Israel? Or on the day in 1938 when Americans discovered in Saudi Arabia one of the largest reserves of oil on the planet? From then on, certainly, the West began an addictive dance with danger, one that it dances to this day. This is a story, moreover, rooted in a world and a culture that few Westerners really know or can begin to understand, yet played out in the heart of the United States. Mystery and terror, a frightening mix. Yet there is a simple point of entry, a routine event on an ordinary American morning. In the dawn of September 11, 2001, in Massachusetts, ninety-two people were getting up, breakfasting, heading for Boston's Logan Airport. They were the passengers and crew of American Airlines Flight 11, one of some forty thousand planes scheduled to crisscross the country that day. To glance at some of the names on the passenger manifest, to learn a little about them, is to glimpse the melting pot nature of the country. Philip Rosenzweig, an executive for Sun Microsystems; Thelma Cuccinello, a grandmother on her way to see a sister in California; Peter Gay, a vice president fo...
