Writing with access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh
interviews, and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and
reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan deliver the first panoramic,
authoritative look back at 9/11.

For most living Americans, September 11, 2001, is the darkest date in the nation.s
history. What exactly happened? Could it have been prevented? How and why did so
much acrimony and bad information arise from the ashes of the World Trade Center,
the Pentagon, and a quiet field in Pennsylvania? And what remains unresolved?
What is certain: Discord and dissent continue to this day.

Beginning with the first brutal actions of the hijackers aboard American Airlines
Flight 11, The Eleventh Day tracks the precise sequence of events and introduces
the players: pilots, terrorists, the airliners. passengers, and the innocents who
died on the ground. Drawing on previously classified records and raw transcripts,
Summers and Swan investigate the response of President Bush and the U.S. military
that day, and the failure to intercept the hijacked airliners. They document the
untruths told afterward by U.S. officials and, as a counterpoint, thoroughly
consider the contentions of the .9/11 truth. movement. With meticulous research,
they examine the personalities of the men behind the onslaught, analyze the
motives that drove them, and expose the U.S. intelligence blunders that preceded
the attacks. They note how afterward.without good evidence.the Bush administration
persisted in trying to link 9/11 to Iraq. And they confront, finally, the question
the 9/11 Commission.s report blurred: Were the terrorists backed by powerful
figures in another foreign nation.one the U.S. had long viewed as a friend?

Riveting, revelatory, and unforgettable, thoroughly sourced and complete with
extensive endnotes, The Eleventh Day is the essential one-volume work on a pivotal
event in our history.

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