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Books
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The 9/11 Commission Report by
This edition has been designated as the only official U.S. Government edition of the 9-11 Commission's Final Report. It provides a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. It also includes recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.
Call Number: General Collection HV6432.7 .N39 2004BPublication Date: 2004
After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era by
"After "is a powerful and sweeping narrative of the country in the year after September 11, 2001. It portrays the drama of those months and takes us from the White House to the scene of the crime, from courtrooms to Capitol corridors, from the boardroom of the Red Cross to the air marshalls' training center--and reveals how America and its people struggled to deal with danger and grief.
Call Number: General Collection HV6432.7 .B75 2003ISBN: 0743237099Publication Date: 2003
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 by
Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11 This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the days and months after 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff, then a reporter for the Boston Globe, wrote about the attacks, the victims, and their families. After further years of meticulous reporting, Zuckoff has filled Fall and Rise with voices of the lost and the saved. The result is an utterly gripping book, filled with intimate stories of people most affected by the events of that sunny Tuesday in September: an out-of-work actor stuck in an elevator in the North Tower of the World Trade Center; the heroes aboard Flight 93 deciding to take action; a veteran trapped in the inferno in the Pentagon; the fire chief among the first on the scene in sleepy Shanksville; a team of firefighters racing to save an injured woman and themselves; and the men, women, and children flying across country to see loved ones or for work who suddenly faced terrorists bent on murder. Fall and Rise will open new avenues of understanding for everyone who thinks they know the story of 9/11, bringing to life--and in some cases, bringing back to life--the extraordinary ordinary people who experienced the worst day in modern American history. Destined to be a classic, Fall and Rise will move, shock, inspire, and fill hearts with love and admiration for the human spirit as it triumphs in the face of horrifying events.
Call Number: Bestseller Collection NONFICTIONPublication Date: 2019
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by
A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. The Looming Tower achieves an unprecedented level of intimacy and insight by telling the story through the interweaving lives of four men: the two leaders of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri; the FBI's counterterrorism chief, John O'Neill; and the former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal. As these lives unfold, we see revealed: the crosscurrents of modern Islam that helped to radicalize Zawahiri and bin Laden . . . the birth of al-Qaeda and its unsteady development into an organization capable of the American embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and the attack on the USS Cole . . . O'Neill's heroic efforts to track al-Qaeda before 9/11, and his tragic death in the World Trade towers . . . Prince Turki's transformation from bin Laden's ally to his enemy . . . the failures of the FBI, CIA, and NSA to share intelligence that might have prevented the 9/11 attacks. The Looming Tower broadens and deepens our knowledge of these signal events by taking us behind the scenes. Here is Sayyid Qutb, founder of the modern Islamist movement, lonely and despairing as he meets Western culture up close in 1940s America; the privileged childhoods of bin Laden and Zawahiri; family life in the al-Qaeda compounds of Sudan and Afghanistan; O'Neill's high-wire act in balancing his all-consuming career with his equally entangling personal life--he was living with three women, each of them unaware of the others' existence--and the nitty-gritty of turf battles among U.S. intelligence agencies. Brilliantly conceived and written, The Looming Tower draws all elements of the story into a galvanizing narrative that adds immeasurably to our understanding of how we arrived at September 11, 2001. The richness of its new information, and the depth of its perceptions, can help us deal more wisely and effectively with the continuing terrorist threat.
Call Number: General Collection HV6432.7 .W75 2006Publication Date: 2006
Out of the Blue by
A gripping and authoritative account of the September 11th attack, its historical roots, and its aftermathFew news stories in recent memory have commanded as much attention as the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but no news organization rivaled The New York Times for its comprehensive, resourceful, in-depth, and thoughtful coverage. This effort may well emerge as the finest hour in the paper's distinguished 150-year history.In an unprecedented commitment, the Times assigned one of its most skilled reporters, Richard Bernstein, to turn the newspaper's brilliant and incisive reporting into a riveting narrative of September 11th. Following the lives of heroes, victims, and terrorists, Bernstein weaves a complex tale of a multitude of lives colliding in conflagration on that fateful morning. He takes us inside the Al Qaeda organization and the lives of the terrorists, from their indoctrination into radical Islam to the harrowing moments aboard the aircraft as they raced toward their terrible destiny. We meet cops and firefighters, and become intimate with some of the Trade Center workers who were lost on that day. We follow the lives of the rest of America-ordinary citizens and national leaders alike-in the hours and days after the attack.Finally, Bernstein chronicles the nation's astonishing response in the aftermath.No account of this singular moment in American history will be as sharp, readable, and authoritative as Out of the Blue.
Call Number: General Collection HV6432.7 .B47 2002Publication Date: 2002
Scapegoats of September 11th: Hate Crimes and State Crimes in the War on Terror by
From its largest cities to deep within its heartland, from its heavily trafficked airways to its meandering country byways, America has become a nation racked by anxiety about terrorism and national security. In response to the fears prompted by the tragedy of September 11th, the country has changed in countless ways. Airline security has tightened, mail service is closely examined, and restrictions on civil liberties are more readily imposed by the government and accepted by a wary public. The altered American landscape, however, includes more than security measures and ID cards. The country's desperate quest for security is visible in many less obvious, yet more insidious ways. In Scapegoats of September 11th, criminologist Michael Welch argues that the "war on terror" is a political charade that delivers illusory comfort, stokes fear, and produces scapegoats used as emotional relief. Regrettably, much of the outrage that resulted from 9/11 has been targeted at those not involved in the attacks on the Pentagon or the Twin Towers. As this book explains, those people have become the scapegoats of September 11th. Welch takes on the uneasy task of sorting out the various manifestations of displaced aggression, most notably the hate crimes and state crimes that have become embarrassing hallmarks both at home and abroad. Drawing on topics such as ethnic profiling, the Abu Ghraib scandal, Guantanamo Bay, and the controversial Patriot Act, Welch looks at the significance of knowledge, language, and emotion in a post-9/11 world. In the face of popular and political cheerleading in the war on terror, this book presents a careful and sober assessment, reminding us that sound counterterrorism policies must rise above, rather than participate in, the propagation of bigotry and victimization.
Call Number: General Collection HV6431 .W444 2006Publication Date: 2006
Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11 by
In this pathbreaking book, Amy Zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11. Until now, those failures have been attributed largely to individual mistakes. But Zegart shows how and why the intelligence system itself left us vulnerable. Zegart argues that after the Cold War ended, the CIA and FBI failed to adapt to the rise of terrorism. She makes the case by conducting painstaking analysis of more than three hundred intelligence reform recommendations and tracing the history of CIA and FBI counterterrorism efforts from 1991 to 2001, drawing extensively from declassified government documents and interviews with more than seventy high-ranking government officials. She finds that political leaders were well aware of the emerging terrorist danger and the urgent need for intelligence reform, but failed to achieve the changes they sought. The same forces that have stymied intelligence reform for decades are to blame: resistance inside U.S. intelligence agencies, the rational interests of politicians and career bureaucrats, and core aspects of our democracy such as the fragmented structure of the federal government. Ultimately failures of adaptation led to failures of performance. Zegart reveals how longstanding organizational weaknesses left unaddressed during the 1990s prevented the CIA and FBI from capitalizing on twenty-three opportunities to disrupt the September 11 plot. Spying Blind is a sobering account of why two of America's most important intelligence agencies failed to adjust to new threats after the Cold War, and why they are unlikely to adapt in the future.
Call Number: General Collection JK468.I6 Z42 2007Publication Date: 2007
Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 by
Damon DiMarco'sTower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 eternally preserves a monumental tragedy in American history through the voices of the people who were in Lower Manhattan and elsewhere in New York City on that fateful day. The stories DiMarco has collected come from a diverse group of human beings: individuals who managed to escape from the Towers; the bereaved of 9/11; the policemen, firemen, paramedics, reporters, and volunteers who risked their lives to help others; eyewitnesses who stood in shock on the streets below the Towers; WTC structural engineers, political experts, political dissidents, small business owners, and, of course, children whose lives will be forever impacted by the horror and chaos theywitnessed. In the tradition of Studs Terkel, DiMarco's moving oral history chronicles the stories of everyone from the small group of people who miraculously made it safely down from the 89th floor of Tower 1 to the New York Times reporter trying desperately to fight her way through the fleeing crowds into Lower Manhattan, to the paramedic who set up a triage area 200 yards from the base of the Towers before they collapsed to the ordinary citizens of New York City who tried to get on with their lives in the days following the tragic event. This expanded second edition of DiMarco's literary time capsule includes follow-up interviews that track contributors' lives in the years since 9/11, as well as dozens of never-before-published photographs.
Call Number: General Collection HV6432.7 .T69 2007Publication Date: 2007
U. S. National Security and Foreign Policymaking After 9/11 by
U.S. National Security Policymaking Present at the Re-Creation examines the external, societal, and governmental sources of change to U.S. national-security policymaking that were begun by 9/11, memorialized by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (2004). The manifold changes and what caused them are chronicled and compared to a similar change of trajectory in U.S. national-security that occurred as the Cold War commenced with the National Security Act (1947).
Call Number: General Collection HV6432.7 .B65 2008Publication Date: 2007
Films
Below is a selected list of films available at the University Libraries. To find more, use the OneSearch tips above.
9/12: From Chaos to Community
Follows several volunteers at Ground Zero through a series of events reuniting them with each other after the closing of the site. Their stories present a portrait of the city within a city that was Ground Zero and examines how an extremely diverse group of people transcended politics and culture in an effort to heal their city and themselves.
Call Number: Education, Music and Media Video DVD VIDEO 9306Publication Date: 2006
My Trip to Al-Qaeda
In 2006, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lawrence Wright staged 'My Trip to al-Qaeda,' a one-man play that explored the moral dilemmas he encountered while researching his bestselling book, 'The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.' Now, Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) brings Wright's off-Broadway show to the screen, chronicling fundamentalist Islam's rise to power, as well as Wright's struggle to maintain objectivity as a journalist in the wake of 9/11.
Call Number: Education, Music and Media Video DVD VIDEO 11326Publication Date: 2012
Remembering 9/11
Examines the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001, including the background of the terrorist group al-Qaeda and their leader Osama bin Laden. Includes archival film footage of the World Trade Center collapse in New York City, and interviews with rescue workers, survivors, and victims' families.
Call Number: Education, Music and Media Video DVD VIDEO 11170Publication Date: 2011
Searching for the Roots of 9/11
Features columnist Thomas L. Friedman as he investigates questions about the Sept. 11, 2001 suicide attacks. Travelling the Middle East and Southeast Asia, Friedman conducts interviews with various persons in an attempt to understand what drove the nineteen men to conduct the attacks, as well as why the attacks were, and continue to be, supported by people from the region.
Call Number: Education, Music and Media Video DVD VIDEO 1459Publication Date: 2004
September 11th
Includes a collection of specials that document New York City on September 11, 2001, including: "102 Minutes That Changed America," "I-Witness to 9/11," "Hotel Ground Zero," "The Miracle of Stairway B," and "The Day the Towers Fell."
Call Number: Education, Music and Media Video DVD VIDEO 11144Publication Date: 2011
Twin Towers
Tells the story of the events that occurred in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001 through the eyes of emergency response personnel. Focuses on Joseph Vigiano, a highly decorated member of NYPD Emergency Services Squad 3, and his brother, John Vigiano Jr., a firefighter. When the first building of the World Trade Center was struck, both Joseph and John were first responders, and both died when the buildings collapsed. Includes news footage, footage of the emergency personnel originally planned for a reality-TV show, interviews with their families and home videos.
Call Number: Education, Music and Media Video DVD VIDEO 2025Publication Date: 2004
Why the Towers Fell
NOVA investigates the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers along with forensic engineers. It presents the engineers' conclusions and the most definitive explanation of how and why the towers collapsed. Interviews with several survivors.
Call Number: Education, Music and Media Video DVD VIDEO 463Publication Date: 2002
