102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

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Jim Dwyer Kevin Flynn

102 Minutes

The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn

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Times Books
02 August 2011

"At 8:46 a.m. that morning, fourteen thousand people were inside the World Trade Centre just starting their workdays, but over the next 102 minutes, each would become part of a drama for the ages. Of the millions of words written about this wrenching day, most were told from the outside looking in. ""New York Times"" reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn draw on hundreds of interviews with rescuers and survivors, thousands of pages of oral histories, and countless phone, e-mail, and emergency radio transcripts to tell the story of September 11 from the inside looking out. Dwyer and Flynn have woven an epic and unforgettable account of the struggle, determination, and grace of the ordinary men and women who made 102 minutes count as never before."

By: Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn
Imprint: Times Books
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 358g
ISBN: 9780805094213
ISBN 10: 0805094210
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 02 August 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jim Dwyer (1957-2020) was the author of several works of nonfiction, including More Awesome Than Money: Four Boys and Their Heroic Quest to Save Your Privacy from Facebook, 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, and Subway Lives: 24 Hours in the Life of the New York Subways. A Pulitzer Prize winner and native New Yorker, he was a columnist for The New York Times, The Daily News and Newsday. Kevin Flynn, a special projects editor at The New York Times, was the newspaper's police bureau chief on September 11, having previously worked as a reporter for the New York Daily News, Newsday, and The Advocate (Stamford). He lives in Connecticut.

Reviews for 102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

<p> A heart-stopping, meticulous account. . . . I suspect that you, like me, will read this book in a single suspenseful sitting, even though we know the ending. --James B. Stewart, The New York Times Book Review <p> The chief virtue of 102 Minutes, Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn's unsparing, eloquent history of the struggle to survive inside the World Trade Center, is the authors' insistence that truth supplant myth. However comforting myths may be after a defeat, they're useless in assessing what went wrong and may actually be impediments to preventing future disasters. --John Farmer (former senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission), The Washington Post Book World <p> An astounding reconstruction of what happened inside the World Trade Center. . . . These are stories, after all, you have to share. --Susannah Meadows, Newsweek <p> Exhaustively researched and smoothly written. . . . Dwyer and Flynn's most impressive achievement: writing in a way that confers dignity on each subject. This