Power at Ground Zero : Politics, Money, and the Remaking of Lower Manhattan.

COVER -- POWER AT GROUND ZERO: POLITICS, MONEY, AND THE REMAKING OF LOWER MANHATTAN -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE -- INSERTS -- POWER AT GROUND ZERO -- PART I: PREDICATE TOACTION -- CHAPTER 1: Compelling Civic Mandates -- ASSURING GLOBAL POSITION -- ASSERTING RESILIENCE -- REPAIRING THE FISCAL FALLOUT -- A SITE WITH HISTORY -- THE ARC OF REBUILDING -- CHAPTER 2: Clashing Private Ambitions -- CAPTURING THE "PRIZE OF ALL PRIZES" -- UNLOCKING AN AGGRESSIVE AGENDA -- FALLING OUT OF ALIGNMENT -- A DYSFUNCTIONAL DOCUMENT -- CHAPTER 3: Commanding Political Opportunities -- THE STATE TAKES CHARGE -- WOUNDED POWER -- RIVALS IN OPPORTUNITY -- CHAPTER 4: Purse Power -- MONEY FROM WASHINGTON -- TWO STATES IN THE BOARD ROOM -- "PART EVENT, PART SYMBOL, AND ALL REAL ESTATE" -- PART II: TANGLED START(2001-2004) -- CHAPTER 5: "It's Our City" -- HIVES OF ACTIVITY -- WHAT ABOUT A SWAP? -- CONTENTION AHEAD -- CHAPTER 6: "It's Our Site" -- UNDERGROUND CONTROL -- BUYOUTS AND PAYOUTS -- NOT SO FAST -- CHAPTER 7: Who's in Charge? -- A FAILED BEGINNING -- STRIVING FOR LEGITIMACY -- DOING ITS OWN THING -- THE GOVERNOR'S POWER -- POLITICAL DECISIONS -- CHAPTER 8: A Master Plan Emerges -- DETERMINING THE MEMORIAL MISSION -- THE FOOTPRINTS -- MEMORIAL ASSERTION -- ACCOMMODATION STRUGGLES -- PART III: CHALLENGES TO THE PLAN (2005-2006) -- CHAPTER 9: Open to Revision -- RAPID DISILLUSIONMENT -- DESIGNING AN ICON -- A LETTER FROM THE NYPD -- GOLDMAN SACHS BALKS -- FINANCIAL TIES TO SECURITY -- A NEW DESIGN AND A NEW NARR ATIVE -- CHAPTER 10: Imbroglio over Culture -- PROCESS LESS THAN TRANSPARENT -- GAME CHANGER -- BOYCOTT POLITICS -- COLLAPSED AMBITIONS -- LOSS HIERARCHY -- PRESS POWER -- REVERBERATIONS -- CHAPTER 11: Memory Politics -- IMMEDIATE COMPROMISES -- THE NAMES -- MONEY ISSUES -- REINING IN COSTS -- THE MAYOR TAKES OVER.

PART IV: POLITICAL PIVOT (2006-2007) -- CHAPTER 12: Larry's Quest -- BATTLING FOR A DOUBLE PAYOUT -- LARRY'S PR CAMPAIGN -- THE DOWNTOWN OFFICE GAMBLE -- OPEN ATTACK -- CHAPTER 13: Political Pivot -- POWER POLITICS -- FIGHTING THROUGH NUMBERS -- CAMPAIGNING FOR PUBLIC SUPPORT -- CHAPTER 14: The Squeeze -- "THE TOOTHPASTE IS OUT OF THE TUBE" -- WORKING BACK CHANNELS -- THE BLAME GAME -- BOXED-IN ACCEPTANCE -- REALIGNED ROLES -- WATERSHED -- PART V: TROUBLED EXECUTION (2008-2010) -- CHAPTER 15: Transportation Phoenix -- THE OCTOPUS BENEATH THE DOVE -- ACCOMMODATING HISTORY -- ROLE REVERSAL -- CHAPTER 16: Institutional Failure -- SPOTLIGHT ON DELAY -- THE FUNDING RELATIONSHIP -- SPIRALING OUT OF CONTROL -- CRISIS CONTROL -- CHAPTER 17: "It's a Construction Job Now" -- CHRIS WARD: REFRAMING THE CRISIS -- THE LITMUS TEST -- BUILD THE ROOF FI RST -- INSTITUTIONAL RECAST -- CHAPTER 18: Stalemate over Subsidy -- LARRY'S LOST OPPORTUNITIES -- POSITIONING IN THE PRESS -- LOCKED IN POSITION -- CHAPTER 19: The Gains of Brinkmanship -- THE ADVERSARIES FACE A DEADLINE -- NO LONGER MONOPOLY MONEY -- TERSE AND INTENSE NEGOTIAT IONS -- THE DEAL, FOR REAL -- STACKED SUBSIDIES -- "EVERYONE GOT A FIG LEAF " -- PART VI: DELIVERANCE(2011-2016) -- CHAPTER 20: Reckoning Anew -- UNDISCIPLINED COSTS -- MUSEUM OF MEMORY -- ENTROPY CONTINUES -- TOWER OF AMBITION -- CHAPTER 21: Ambition and Legacy -- IRONIES OF POWER -- THE PRESS GAP -- THE LEADERSHIP FACTOR -- BEYOND REBUILDING -- EPILOGUE -- DRAMATIS PERSONAE: Positions and Roles during the Storyline of Rebuilding -- LIST OF SOURCE ABBREVIATIONS -- SELECTIVE CHRONOLOGY OF THE REBUILDING OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER SITE: 2001-2016 -- NOTE ON THE AUTHOR'S SOURCES OF INFORMATION -- SELECTIVE PRIMARY DOCUMENTS -- Planning for Rebuilding -- WTC Memorial and Memorial Museum -- Cultural Program.

Infrastructure / Construction / PATH Transportation Hub -- Commercial Towers -- 1 World Trade -- Silverstein Towers -- LIST OF INTERVIEWS -- NOTES -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21 -- Epilogue -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX.

The destruction of the World Trade Center complex on 9/11 set in motion a chain of events that fundamentally transformed both the United States and the wider world. In Power at Ground Zero, Lynne Sagalyn offers the definitive account of one of the greatest reconstruction projects in modern world history: the rebuilding of lower Manhattan after 9/11.

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