Considers how America has and has not changed in the year after September 11, recounting events in the White House, Capitol corridors, Red Cross boardroom, military training centers, and civilian homes to reveal how the nation is managing grief and working to defend itself from further attacks. 150,000 first printing.
Steven Brill, a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, is the author of the bestselling
The Teamsters. He founded
The American Lawyer magazine in 1979, which expanded into a chain of legal publications. In 1991 he founded cable's
Court TV. After selling his interests in those businesses in 1997, he founded
Brill's Content, a magazine about the media, which closed in 2001.
After September 11, 2001, Brill became a columnist for Newsweek and an analyst for NBC on issues related to the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. A winner of the National Magazine Award, Brill lives in New York City with his wife and three children.