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The story begins on September 12, 2001. It reads like a novel. But the characters in award-winning journalist Steven Brill's America are real. They don't have all the answers or all the virtues of fictional heroes. It is because they are so human--so much like the rest of us--that makes the way they rise to the challenge of September 12 such an inspiring story about how America really works.
Drawing on 347 on-the-record interviews and revelations from memos of government meetings, court filings, and other documents, Brill gives us a front-row seat as these and other players in this real-life drama cross paths in a series of alliances and confrontations and fight for their own interests and their version of the public interest.
The result is a gritty story-- and trailblazing journalism--that inspires us not because these Americans or their country are perfect, but because they were tough enough, anchored enough, and living in a system that encouraged and enabled them to meet the awesome challenges they faced.

"The primary lesson of AFTER is Brill's insight into the way various special interests, the eternal antagonists of the American arena, came together in extreme circumstances to repair the damage. His book gives a sophisticated demonstration of the strengths and weaknesses of 21st-century commercial democracy under pressure."

Robert Stone, New York Times Book Review, 04/20/2003

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