World Trade Center: The Giants That Defied the Sky

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 158663612X ISBN 13: 9781586636128

Publisher: Metro Books, 2002

Photographs and text depict New York City before, during, and after the building of the World Trade Center, the complex's role in the movies, its destruction on September 11, 2001, and the aftermath.

From School Library Journal:

Adult/High School-Mirroring the shape of the infamous towers, this book is a foot and a quarter long and eight inches across. The golden-hued photos on the front and back covers bind together a stunning pictorial history of the World Trade Center before, during, and after its construction, and the ever after of its destruction, with a mixture of diagrams and captioned photos-aged, angular, aerial, active. Some photographs fold out to poster-size. All of the graphics, whether in color or black and white or those that look monotone from the September 11 fallout, are telling and poignant. Along with the author's commentary, they serve as a eulogy to the Twin Towers and the indomitable spirit of the New York citizenry.
Karen Sokol, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA
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