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050			_aHV 6432.7 _b.B275 2007
100			_aBarrett, Wayne, _d-1945 _9110021
245		0	_aGrand illusion : _bthe untold story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11 / _cWayne Barrett and Dan Collins ; research assistance by Anna Lenzer ; [with a new afterword].
260			_aNew York : _bHarper, _c2007
300			_ax, 402 p. _c20 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [375]-387) and index.
520			_a of the pivotal day in our recent history."www.powells.com"
520			_a reassessing and recounting the victims, the villains, and the heroes andndash
520			_a the true story of what happened that day and how the city fought to recover afterwards. It also traces the comeback trail of a city that has never faced a fiercer fire or stiffer wind, discovering survivors who rebuild neighborhoods, heroes who rescue economies. Beyond the historical account, the book centers on the first clearandndash
520			_aandndash
520			_aart operations center that might have averted some of the calamitous decisions made that day. And the failures weren't limited to iconography. The mayor's performance, though marked by personal courage and grace under fire, followed two terms in office pursuing an utterly wrongheaded approach to the city's security against terrorism. Grand Illusion will serve as an indispensible corrective to the rough draft of history rushed out in the wake of 9/11. Turning the mythology on its head, it reveals how Giuliani, far from being the savior of the day, was directly responsible for many of the city's inabilities to cope with the crisis. It also demonstrates how Giuliani has himself revised history, inaccurately casting himself as prescient terror hawk when in fact he ignored repeated warnings, too distracted by pet projects and turf wars to attend to vital precautions. While this book provides an unflinching portrayal of what happened on and after September 11, it will not leave readers hopeless. Instead, it will serve as the first authoritive history andndash
520			_acovered Giuliani making his way through the streets became very much a part of his personal mythology, they were also a symbol of one of his greatest failures. A more sensibly located emergency command post would have kept him behind the scenes, but it would have given the city a functioning, stateandndash
520			_aeyed evaluation of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's role before, during, and after the disaster. While the pictures of a sootandndash
520			_aGrand Illusion is the definitive report on 9/11 in New York andndash
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650			_aMayors _zNew York _9110022
650			_aSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001. _zNew York (State) _9110023
700			_aCollins, Dan _9110024
700			_aLenzer, Anna. _9110025
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