02730cam a2200277 4500 1660602872 TxAuBib 20241017120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780525658979 0525658971 0031108603 Axis360 TxAuBib Silverstein, Larry. The Rising [Boundless]. Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2024. The never-before-told inside story of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center — an epic tale of business, politics, and engineering by the man who spent two decades working to make it happenAfter the terrorist attacks of 9/11 destroyed the World Trade Center, New Yorkers and Americans faced a critical set of questions: What should be done with the site? Could the towers be replaced? And how best to memorialize those lost on that day? For Larry Silverstein, a lifelong New Yorker who had signed a lease for the properties just a few months before the attacks, the answer was clear: America had to rebuild as quickly as possible.In The Rising, Silverstein recounts in vivid detail his long battle to construct a new World Trade Center complex and to revitalize the surrounding neighborhood while also memorializing the victims of the attacks. Silverstein made history in 2001 when he signed a 99-year lease on the 10.6-million-square-foot World Trade Center for $3.25 billion. For the next twenty years, he navigated warring political interests, byzantine city bureaucracies, and resistant insurance companies, as well as the many challenges of designing, engineering, and constructing several new towers in the heart of downtown Manhattan. More than once the entire project almost folded, but today the buildings are nearly complete and the neighborhood is once again a thriving hub that draws hundreds of thousands of people a day.The Rising is a vibrant portrait of the inner workings of New York City in the wake of its most profound tragedy, but it is also a master class in how to succeed in business despite all odds. Full of outsize characters and relentless adversity, this is a riveting book about a remarkable feat of vision and determination. Format: Blio. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Construction / General; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century. General Adult. Importer Version: 2016-03-11.01 Import Date: 2024-10-17 20:00:03. History fast United States 21st Century. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Construction General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Leadership. https://sundown.boundless.baker-taylor.com/Title?itemId=0031108603 TXHSB