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The Best Book on 9/11 I've Ever Read
I've read many books on 9/11, but stayed away from the conspiracy books, and I have to say that this new book (just released last night at midnight, 9/10/2019), is probably the best one I've ever read. And I'm only about a third of the way through. I stayed up late last night to read it. One of the things I like most about it is it's format. "Oral History". That format has been around for awhile and is quite popular. If you read the "Oral History of SNL", you know what it's like. It's written in a flowing conversation involving a hundred different people. Each paragraph is a different person (a survivor, a witness, President Bush, a fireman, a deli worker, etc. etc.) adding to the conversation, which is laid out in order of events. So where one person starts to tell about something, it is picked up by the next person in the narrative. So you get multiple viewpoints of the same events. And since it's not written as "just the facts" kind of narrative, it's from people who lost loved ones in the attack, and from survivors, it tends to be an extremely emotional read. It transports you back to the time and places of 9/11/2001. "If there's just one book to read....." about 9/11, I highly suggest this one!
September 2019 · Kindle Store · verified purchase
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
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