Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff

[Avid Reader Press]NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This is history at its most immediate and movingA marvelous and memorable book. Jon Meacham RemarkableA priceless civic giftOn page after page, a reader will encounter words that startle, or make him angry, or heartbroken. The Wall Street Journal Had me turning each page with my heart in my throatTheres been a lot written about 9/11, but nothing like this. I urge you to read it. Katie Couric The first comprehensive oral history of September 11, 2001a panoramic narrative woven from voices on the front lines of an unprecedented national trauma.Over the past eighteen years, monumental literature has been published about 9/11, from Lawrence Wrights The Looming Tower to The 9/11 Commission Report. But one perspective has been missing up to this pointa 360-degree account of the day told through firsthand. Now, in The Only Plane in the Sky, Garrett Graff tells the story of the day as it was livedin the