"Better and more comprehensive than any prior account. . . . Those of
us who lived through those days will find the book cathartic; those
rising generations who were too young to remember 9/11, or who weren't
yet born, will find it revelatory." --John Farmer, senior counsel to the
9/11 Commission and author of The Ground Truth
"With his rigorous research and moral clarity, Mitchell Zuckoff has
provided us with an invaluable service. He has deepened our
understanding of what happened on 9/11 and recorded the voices of the
victims and the survivors. What's more, he has ensured that we never
forget." --David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of
Killers of the Flower Moon
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.
