The Freedom Tower: The History of New York City’s One World Trade Center
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This book examines the construction history of the building that replaces the Twin Towers.
Waymark Code: WMZ79A
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 09/22/2018
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In the years following the terror attacks that destroyed the original World Trade Center buildings, U.S. leaders were searching for some way to demonstrate the country's recovery and resolve. Since there was no way to bring back the lives of those lost, the most straightforward path was to rebuild the Twin Towers that had fallen, but there was more to be done than to just rebuild the lost Twin Towers; the new building was to be bigger, taller, and better than before, as everyone hoped the country would somehow be.
In the decade that followed, the Freedom Tower experienced many of the same ups and downs that the nation did. Plans to rebuild it were met with the same level of controversy as those to fight the war on terror. Likewise, its popularity ebbed and flowed with the fickle hearts of a people grown weary with fighting an enemy overseas and a poor economy at home. Political parties rose into and fell out of power, changing again and again the environment in which the builders were trying to work. At some points, it seemed that the project would never end. Fortunately, the building itself finally knew victory and opened to the public, much as it seems the United States will has made some inroads in the war against terror.
ISBN Number: 1530061792
Author(s): Charles River
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