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After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era

"The story begins on September 12, 2001. It reads like a novel. But the characters in award-winning journalist Steven Brill's America are real. They don't have all the answers or all the virtues of fictional heroes. It is because they are so human -- so much like the rest of us -- that makes the way they rise to the challenge of September 12 such an inspiring story about how America really works. A Customs inspector somehow has to guard against a nuclear bomb that could be hidden in one of the thousands of cargo containers from all over the world sitting on his dock in New York harbor. A young woman in New Jersey, suddenly widowed with three young children, doesn't know how to get the keys to her husband's car, much less how she can challenge the head of a federal victims' fund. An entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, who makes machines that screen luggage for bombs, can't decide if this crisis is an opportunity he should seize. Attorney General John Ashcroft has no idea how to find the new, hidden enemy living among us. The young, just-hired director of the American Civil Liberties Union wonders how he can keep Ashcroft from going too far. The CEO of a giant insurer has to decide whether to risk economic panic by not paying damage claims that he might legally be able to avoid. Red Cross President Bernadine Healy has to figure out how to collect and allocate donations while dodging a hostile board of directors. Career civil servant Gale Rossides has to recruit and train the largest workforce ever hired by the government -- the new airport passenger screeners. A proprietor of a shoe repair shop -- helped by two young women, pro bono lawyers -- has to rebuild a business buried in the rubble of Ground Zero. A Detroit Border Patrol agent -- whose bosses want to fire him for speaking out about how unprotected his stretch of border is -- has to choose whether to risk his family's livelihood by sounding the alarm.

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Title of ebook: After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era
ISBN: 9780743249546
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Internet download file size: 754 kb
Released online for download: 04-07-2003
Author of eBook: Brill, Steven

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How America Confronted the September 12 Era

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The Main Characters

John Ashcroft: United States Attorney General

James Brosnahan: Lead defense lawyer for John Walker Lindh

Michael Cartier: Business information systems manager at cable television company in New York; co-founder, Give Your Voice; brother of September 11 victim James Cartier, an electrician working in the North Tower

Larry Cox: President and CEO, Memphis�Shelby County Airport Authority

Kenneth Feinberg: Special Master, Victim Compensation Fund

Bernadine Healy: President and CEO, American Red Cross

Salvatore Iacono: Proprietor, Continental Shoe Repair (two blocks from Ground Zero)

Robert Lindemann: Senior Border Patrol Agent, U.S. Border Patrol (Detr ... read full excerpt from After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era ebook