Gabriel C Pierce (6 results)

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, America remains shaped by that morning - its wars, its security laws, its memorials, and, increasingly, its divisions. What Makes Life Worth Living traces the day itself, the extraordinary federal effort to compensate victims' families through the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, and the quarter-century of policy, memory, and politics that followed. Drawing on the 9/11 Commission Report, congressional records, and decades of public research, Gabriel C. Pierce examines how a nation that briefly achieved near-total unity in the fall of 2001 became one of the most polarized democracies in the developed world - and asks what, if anything, that history can still teach a divided country. Structured in four parts - the attacks and their aftermath, the ethics of compensating catastrophic loss, twenty-five years of consequences, and a closing set of reflections - this is a clear-eyed, deeply researched book for readers who lived through September 11 and for the growing generation who know it only as history.…

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Madrid, Alianza Editorial, Colecc. El Libro de Bolsillo nº 255, 1970. Traducc. Víctor Sánchez de Zavala. 18x11 cm. 265 p. Rústica. Muy buen estado.1ª edición español. (Ref. N. 211-C).