After 9/11: Leading Political Thinkers about the World; the U.S. and Themselves, 17 Conversations, 17 Conversations

Author

Endler; Tobias

Year

2011

Publisher

Verlag Barbara Budrich

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-3-86649-364-3

Link

Last Update

10-Jan-2026

Keywords

Political Science

Description

Rebuilding began only three days after the shock. With the ruins of the World Trade Center still burning, as they would continue to do for weeks after, and the smoldering rubble of what used to be the West’s most significant symbol of economic wealth strewn across lower Manhattan, the bulldozers took up their work. The scale of what had happened was not yet comprehensible. Still, the first traces of ‘Project Rebirth’ were already under way.¹ New York City, shaken by a terrorist attack of unprecedented magnitude, had been in a state of paralysis, but was far from dead, and began...