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Until the fires stopped burning
Charles B. Strozier's college lost sixty-eight alumni in the tragedy of 9/11, and the many courses he has taught on terrorism and related topics since have attracted dozens of survivors and family members. A practicing psychoanalyst in Manhattan, Strozier has also accepted many seared by the disaster into his care. In some ways, the grief he has encountered has felt familiar; in other ways, unprecedented. Compelled to investigate its unique character further, he launched a fascinating study into the conscious and unconscious meaning of the event, both for those who were physically close to the attack and for those who witnessed it beyond the immediate space of Ground Zero.
Based on the testimony of survivors, bystanders, spectators, and victim's friends and families,Until the Fires Stopped Burningbrings much-needed clarity to the conscious and unconscious meaning of 9/11 and its relationship to historical disaster, apocalyptic experience, unnatural death, and the psychological endurance of trauma. Strozier interprets and contextualizes the memories of witnesses and compares their encounter with 9/11 to the devastation of Hiroshima, Auschwitz, Katrina, and other events Kai Erikson has called a \"new species of trouble\" in the world. Organizing his study around \"zones of sadness\" in New York, Strozier powerfully evokes the multiple places in which his respondents confronted 9/11 while remaining sensitive to the personal, social, and cultural differences of these experiences. Most important, he distinguishes between 9/11 as an apocalyptic event (which he affirms it is not;rather, it is a monumental event), and 9/11 as an apocalyptic experience, which is crucial to understanding the act's affect on American life and a still-evolving culture of fear in the world.
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Seeing Ghosts
Starting from the tremendous fascination with images of 9/11, Karen Engle asks what, in the context of a national trauma, makes an image appropriate or scandalous, exploring how diverse visual media have been mobilized in political projects of identification and personal narratives of empathy. Focusing on themes of memory, mourning, and history, Engle examines sculptural, photographic, and new media responses to the 9/11 attacks in both contemporary and historical contexts, considers the public's reaction to these visual productions, and suggests that earlier presentations of America at war play a pivotal role in the representations of 9/11 in both official and popular media.
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Killer instinct
The murder of an Ivy League professor pulls Dr. Dylan Reinhart out of his ivory tower and onto the streets of New York, where he reunited with his old partner, Detective Elizabeth Needham. As the worst act of terror since 9/11 strikes the city, a name on the casualty list rocks Dylan's world. Is his secret past about to be brought to light?
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The day Wall Street exploded : a story of America in its first age of terror
On its 90th anniversary, the first major account of the 1920 terrorist bombing on Wall Street is now available in paperback. Just after noon on September 16, 1920, as hundreds of workers poured onto Wall Street for their lunchtime break, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynamite exploded in a spray of metal and fire, turning the busiest corner of the financial center into a war zone. Thirty-nine people died and hundreds more lay wounded, making the Wall Street explosion the worst terrorist attack to that point in U.S. history. In The Day Wall Street Exploded, Beverly Gage tells the story of that once infamous but now largely forgotten event, exploring both what it reveals about America in the early 20th century and what it tells us about our own time.
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Les attentats du 11 septembre 2001, le traumatisme de toute une nation (Grands Événements)
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur le 11 septembre en moins d'une heure! Le 11 septembre 2001, le monde entier est sous le choc: deux avions viennent de s'écraser sur les tours du World Trade Center, à New York, entraînant la mort de près de 3 000 personnes. Quelques minutes plus tard, un troisième s'écrase contre le Pentagone. Pour les États-Unis, le réveil est brutal: jamais le territoire américain n'avait été attaqué avec une telle violence. Pour George W. Bush, une chose est claire: ce crime ne restera pas impuni. La guerre contre le terrorisme vient tout juste de commencer. Ce livre vous permettra d'en savoir plus sur:
• Le contexte politique et social de l'époque
• Les acteurs majeurs qui ont pris part à l'événement
• Le déroulement des attentats
• Les répercussions des attaques Le mot de l'éditeur:
« Dans ce numéro de la collection « 50MINUTES | Grands Événements », Quentin Convard nous fait découvrir les dessous de cette journée qui a fait entrer de plain-pied les États-Unis dans le XXIe siècle. Si un attentat avait déjà eu lieu en 1993 dans les tours jumelles, l'horreur vécu le 11 septembre 2001 est inqualifiable et surprend tout le monde. Sans entrer dans la polémique, l'auteur nous présente le déroulement de la journée et met en lumière certains éléments troublants. »
Stéphanie Dagrain À PROPOS DE LA SÉRIE 50MINUTES | Grands Événements
La série « Grands Événements » de la collection « 50MINUTES » aborde plus de cinquante faits qui ont bouleversé notre histoire. Chaque livre a été pensé pour les lecteurs curieux qui veulent tout savoir sur un sujet précis, tout en allant à l'essentiel, et ce en moins d'une heure. Nos auteurs combinent les faits, les analyses et les nouvelles perspectives pour rendre accessibles des siècles d'histoire.
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Bullseye
Snow blankets the avenues of Manhattan's exclusive Upper West Side. The storm is the perfect cover for a fashionable, highly trained team of lethal assassins as they prowl the streets, hunting their prey. But their first hit is simply target practice. Their next mission may very well turn the Cold War red-hot once again. Stepping directly into the line of fire, the president of the United States is in New York for a summit at the United Nations with his Russian counterpart. Pulled away from his family and pressed into service, Detective Michael Bennett must trace the source of a threat that could rip the country apart and ignite a war the likes of which the world has never seen. With allegiances constantly in doubt and no one above suspicion, only Bennett can save the president -- and the country -- before the assassins' deadly kill shot hits its mark.
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Willful Blindness
Long before the devastation of September 11, 2001, the war on terror raged. The problem was that only one side, radical Islam, was fighting it as a war. For the United States, the frontline was the courtroom. So while a diffident American government prosecuted a relative handful of defendants,\" committed militants waged a campaign of jihadholy warboldly targeting America's greatest city, and American society itself, for annihilation. The jihad continues to this day. But now, fifteen years after radical Islam first declared war by detonating a complex chemical bomb in the heart of the global financial system, former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy provides a unique insider's perspective on America's first response. McCarthy led the historic prosecution against the jihad organization that carried out the World Trade Center attack: the battalions of Islam\" inspired by Omar Abdel Rahman,the notorious Blind Sheikh.\" In Willful Blindness, he unfolds the troubled history of modern American counterterrorism. It is a portrait of stark contrast: a zealous international network of warriors dead certain, despite long odds, that history and Allah are on their side, pitted against the world's lone superpower, unsure of what it knows, of what it fights, and of whether it has the will to win. It is the story of a nation and its government consciously avoiding Islam's animating role in Islamic terror. From the start, it led top U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies to underestimate, ignore, and even abet zealots determined to massacre Americans. Even today, after thousands of innocent lives have been lost, the United States averts its eyes from this harsh reality.
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