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FALL and RISE: the Story of 9/11 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kate D’Esmond (212) 207-7362 / [email protected] “The horror and heroism of 9/11 are brought to life in this panoramic history. ... The result is a superb, harrowing retelling of this most dramatic of stories.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review “A meticulously delineated, detailed, graphic history of the events of 9/11 in New York City, at the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania. ... Despite the story’s sprawling cast, which could have sabotaged a book by a less-skilled author, Zuckoff ably handles all of the complexities. ... [A]s contemporary history, Fall and Rise is a clear and moving success.” — Kirkus Reviews, starred review FALL AND RISE: The Story of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckoff #1 New York Times bestselling author Harper • on sale April 30, 2019 On the morning of September 11, 2001, bestselling author and journalist Mitchell Zuckoff was on book leave from the Boston Globe when his editor called: airplanes had struck the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack. Both planes that hit the towers had taken off from Boston’s Logan Airport. Zuckoff rushed to the newsroom. He wrote the lead story that appeared on Page One of the Globe the next day (see below), and for months after, Zuckoff wrote about the attacks, the perpetrators, the victims, and their families. So began an abiding commitment to the true story of that day, culminating here in FALL AND RISE: The Story of 9/11 (Harper; on sale April 30, 2019; $29.99). After years of meticulous reporting, Zuckoff, the bestselling author of 13 Hours, has written the first comprehensive nonfiction narrative of that terrible day. He has masterfully woven together multiple strands of what happened in New York, at the Pentagon, in Shanksville, PA, and among military responders, into a mesmerizing, minute-by- minute account. He has filled FALL AND RISE with stories of the lost and the saved, giving voice to the people most poignantly affected on that sunny Tuesday in September. Among them: an out-of-work actor trapped in an elevator in the North Tower of the World Trade Center; the heroes aboard Flight 93 deciding to take action; a veteran stuck in the inferno in the Pentagon; one of the first firefighters on the scene in sleepy Shanksville; an unlikely pair of strangers in the South Tower who resolve to save each other; a crew of firefighters who refuse to leave an injured woman behind; and an Army officer who puts a civilian on her back to crawl through flames. In Zuckoff, the survivors and the families of the dead found a compassionate and empathetic landing place for their sacred stories, many of which are told here for the first time. FALL AND RISE brings to life—and in some cases, brings back to life—all the extraordinary ordinary people who were faced with the worst day in modern American history. Destined to be a classic, FALL AND RISE will break hearts and fill them again with love and admiration for the triumph of the human spirit in the face of horrifying events. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mitchell Zuckoff is a professor of journalism at Boston University. He is the author of numerous books, including 13 Hours; Lost in Shangri-La; Frozen in Time; Robert Altman: The Oral Biography; Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend; and Choosing Naia: A Family’s Journey. He is the co-author of Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders. As a member of the Spotlight Team at the Boston Globe, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for investigative reporting and the winner of numerous national awards. His work has appeared The New Yorker, the New York Times, and other national publications. He lives outside Boston with his wife, Boston Globe photographer Suzanne Kreiter, with whom he has two adult daughters. Mitchell Zuckoff’s byline from Page One of The Boston Globe. September 12, 2001. Praise for FALL AND RISE “Better and more comprehensive than any prior account, Fall and Rise shows us the human toll of the 9/11 terror attacks. It is a tale told in aborted destinies, in endless ripples of heartache, and it documents the inestimable value of individual lives. Those of us who lived through those days will find the book cathartic; those rising generations who were too young to remember 9/11, or who weren’t yet born, will find it revelatory.” — John Farmer, senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission and author of The Ground Truth “With his rigorous research and moral clarity, Mitchell Zuckoff has provided us with an invaluable service. He has deepened our understanding of what happened on 9/11 and recorded the voices of the victims and the survivors. What’s more, he has ensured that we never forget.” — David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon “Fall and Rise reads as a compelling jig-saw puzzle: an everyday Tuesday morning abruptly shattered, cleaving our collective memory into a pre and post-September 11, 2001. Mitchell Zuckoff proceeds to reassemble and interlock clusters of those pieces, creating a portrait of fate’s arbitrary operations while exposing the threads of human connectivity at the heart of these convulsive events. The victims, survivors, responders and bereaved relatives central to his narrative are familiar to us, accessible and endearing because we can see ourselves reflected in the mirror of those lives that Zuckoff has restored through rigorous research, sensitive listening and artful storytelling. Infused with empathy, Fall and Rise dignifies not only the web of individuals profiled in his book but all who were violated by the terrorist attacks of 9/11.” — Jan Ramirez, chief curator and executive vice president of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum “Fall and Rise is the 9/11 book we’ve been waiting for. A terrific storyteller and gifted researcher, Mitchell Zuckoff has rendered that world-changing day on a scale both intimate and monumental. This is narrative history at its very best.” — Cokie Roberts, New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning journalist “A triumph of great reporting and rigorous research, Fall and Rise by Mitchell Zuckoff recreates the tragic events of September 11, 2001, with harrowing precision and commendable empathy.” — Daniel James Brown, New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat “Both a deconstruction and a reconstruction, Fall and Rise is a definitive, perhaps the definitive, account of a day that will always live in infamy. In this forensic but also literary tour de force, Mitchell Zuckoff has not only created a moving and consequential work; he’s performed a national service.” — Hampton Sides, bestselling author of In the Kingdom of Ice and On Desperate Ground “Mitchell Zuckoff’s Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 brings readers back to those harrowing days in 2001 which forever scarred the American psyche and left a wound a mile deep in the heart of our nation. Every page shivers in stark remembrance of New York, Washington D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania on those dark days. A masterpiece of historical scholarship!” — Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race “The horror and heroism of 9/11 are brought to life in this panoramic history. ... The result is a superb, harrowing retelling of this most dramatic of stories.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A meticulously delineated, detailed, graphic history of the events of 9/11 in New York City, at the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania. ... Despite the story’s sprawling cast, which could have sabotaged a book by a less-skilled author, Zuckoff ably handles all of the complexities. ... [A]s contemporary history, Fall and Rise is a clear and moving success.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Publishers Weekly, starred review The horror and heroism of 9/11 are brought to life in this panoramic history. Boston University journalism professor Zuckoff, who covered the attacks for the Boston Globe, traces the day’s events through the stories of dozens of people who experienced them: the hijackers as they put the finishing touches on their plot and set it in motion; the hijacked aircrew and passengers stunned by the unfolding nightmare; the air-traffic controllers, FAA officials, and military officers who struggled to piece together what was happening in the skies (Zuckoff shows how miscommunication delayed crucial measures that might have saved lives); workers in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon as they scrambled to escape from the growing infernos; and the firefighters who risked their lives to rescue them. Zuckoff draws skillfully on interviews with survivors, family reminiscences, audio documents (including farewell phone calls from doomed victims), tapes from the cockpit of United Flight 93 where passengers fought to take the plane back from the hijackers, and forlorn notes—one reading “84th floor. West office. 12 people trapped” drifted down from a tower—to flesh out the violence, chaos, and occasional moments of grace. The result is a superb, harrowing retelling of this most dramatic of stories. Kirkus Reviews, starred review A meticulously delineated, detailed, graphic history of the events of 9/11 in New York City, at the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania. Working at the Boston Globe as an investigative journalist, Zuckoff (Journalism/Boston Univ.; 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi, 2014, etc.) spent months after 9/11 publishing pieces on the tragedy’s victims and their families and friends. He decided to revisit the personal sagas so that future generations of readers will fully understand this watershed moment in American history.
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