After, Steven Brill
After, Steven Brill
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After
How America Confronted the September 12 Era

Author: Steven Brill

Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris

Abridged: 9 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2003


Synopsis

After is an astounding, inspiring, and exciting account of America in the first year of the September 12th era. Based on 347 on-the-record interviews and revelations from memos of government meetings, court filings and other documents, award winning journalist Steven Brill takes us inside the critical dramas of the year after the September 11 attacks -- from the Justice Department's drive to find terror cells, to Congress's decision to bail out the airline industry, to a Ground Zero real estate mogul's audacious plan to litigate his way to an extra $3.5 billion in insurance proceeds.
In After we go inside the late night audiences that lobbyists get with congressional leaders like Tom DeLay. We're in the White House sub-basement as the mammoth Department of Homeland Security is patched together, agency by agency. And we're in a young widow's living room as she struggles to hold her family together and make sense of the various charities and government funds that may be available to her.
But beyond being a masterpiece of reporting, After is a riveting narrative of people -- some well known, others not known at all -- facing the defining challenge of their lives. As their paths cross in a series of surprising alliances and confrontations, Brill finds in their stories the answer to how America changed and prevailed.
After is an indelible picture of America and Americans battling their way through a time of crisis. And we see that Americans and their country were anything but soft when it came to standing up the morning after.

About Steven Brill

Steven Brill is the founder of Journalism Online, a company designed to create a new, viable business model for journalism to flourish online.  He is a feature writer for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and TIME.  Brill founded the Yale Journalism Initiative, which recruits and trains journalists.  He founded and ran Court TV, The American Lawyer Magazine, and Brill's Content Magazine.  He is the author of After: How America Confronted the September 12th Era and The Teamsters.

About Dennis Boutsikaris

Dennis Boutsikaris won an OBIE Award for his performance in Sight Unseen and played Mozart in Amadeus on Broadway. Among his films are *batteries not included, The Dream Team, and Boys On the Side. His many television credits include And Then There Was One, Chasing the Dragon, and 100 Center Street.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ana-Maria on October 16, 2021

This is not a book about the attacks, about terrorism, about why it happened. It isn't about about what happened either. It is a book about how things were sort of made to work after, by very flawed people. I don't think I would have liked this book very much 10 years ago. But now, working in an insu......more

Goodreads review by Holly on April 06, 2022

The book details the impact of 9/11 on various individuals and organizations, which takes you from the initial moments after the buildings fell until a year or two later. It was an easy-to-digest summary of how our policies and procedures needed to be changed in the aftermath of the incident.......more

Goodreads review by Scott on May 14, 2010

Finished this one today over lunch. Brill tries to put together a history of what happened after the attacks on 9/11 and show his readers "how the sausage was made". The creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the Red Cross donations, the 9/11 victims fund - the backgrounds behind all these......more

Goodreads review by Mary on September 01, 2013

Great set up for understanding the U.S. in the post-9/11 age. The book opens, briefly, in 9/11/01, and follows a handful of real-life people in diverse roles as each grapples with the year ending on 9/11/02: A 9/11 widow whose husband worked at Cantor Fitzgerald; the general manager of the Memphis a......more

Goodreads review by Jen on December 01, 2009

This was much more interesting than I had predicted. It describes the lives of several different people who were affected by 9/11 (families of victims who initiated funds, politicians, heads of national companies or groups) and how the knowledge we had prior to and after the WTC collapse changed the......more