The World Trade Center was the biggest and brashest icon that New York has ever produced: a pair of magnificent giants that became intimately familiar around the globe. In this vivid, brilliantly researched narrative, New York Times reporters James Glanz and Eric Lipton re-create the life of the World Trade Center from its genesis in David Rockefeller’s ambition to rebuild lower Manhattan to the spirited battles with local storeowners and powerful politicians who opposed it, to the bold structural engineering innovations that would later determine who lived and died in its collapse. And like David McCullough’s "The Great Bridge", "City in the Sky" is a riveting story of New York itself - of architectural daring, political maneuvering, human ambition and frailty, and a lost American icon.

The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7 by David Ray Griffin (2009)

At 5:20 in the afternoon on 9-11, Building 7 of the World Trade Center collapsed, even though it had not been struck by a plane and had fires on only a few floors. The reason for its collapse was considered a mystery. In August 2008, NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) issued its report on WTC 7, declaring that “the reason for the collapse of World Trade Center 7 is no longer a mystery” and that “science is really behind what we have said.” Showing that neither of these claims is true, David Ray Griffin demonstrates that NIST is guilty of the most serious types of scientific fraud: fabricating, falsifying, and ignoring evidence. He also shows that NIST’s report left intact the central mystery: How could a building damaged by fire – not explosives – have come down in free fall?

Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster by David Icke (2002)

According to author David Icke, since the horrendous day of September 11th 2001, the people of the world have been told the Big Lie. The official story of what happened on 9-11 is a fantasy of untruth, manipulation, contradiction and anomaly. David Icke has spent well over a decade uncovering the force that was really behind those attacks and has traveled to 40 countries in pursuit of the truth. He has exposed their personnel, methods and agenda in a series of books and videos.

Therefore, when the attacks came, it was easy to recognise the Hidden Hand behind the cover story of and “Bin Laden did it“. Icke takes apart the official version of 9-11 and the “war on terrorism" and shows that those responsible are much closer to home than a cave in Afghanistan. He explains why 9-11 was planned and to what end. Icke also places these events in their true context as part of an agenda by hidden forces working behind the puppet politicians to create a global fascist state based on total control and surveillance. But it doesn’t have to be like this; it does not have to happen. We can change the world from a prison to a paradise and, as Icke explains, the power to do that is within you and within us all.

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