Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11 by Bill Gertz

Eye-opening expose of the mistakes behind "the most damaging intelligence failure since Pearl Harbor." Gertz supports his argument that the intelligence community has "lost sight of its purpose and function" with interviews, news clips and almost 100 pages of government documents. He seldom blames either President Bush's policies in the Middle East. He saves his condemnation, instead, for the Clinton administration.

A New Deal for New York by Mike Wallace

Mr. Wallace, Director of the Gotham Center for New York History, argues that we should not just rebuild and memorialize the Trade Center site, but rethink and plan more broadly for the entire city's future.

Portraits 9/11/01: The Collected "Portraits of Grief" by The New York Times

From the New York Times's series "Portraits of Grief." Described by Times executive editor Howell Raines as "snapshots of lives interrupted as they were being actively lived," the profiles give a face to a number, a story to a name.

Never Forget: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 by Mitchell Fink, Lois Mathias

Mitchell Fink, former New York Daily News gossip columnist, teamed with wife Lois Mathias to gather the first-person accounts of World Trade Center office workers, Pentagon employees, rescue workers, witnesses, and others who lived through the events of September 11. The NYPD Chief of Police relates the experience of watching one of the towers collapse, a preschool teacher tells of the three days she spent searching in vain for her fiancé, an 89-year-old man describes his trip down 88 flights of stairs.

New York September Eleven Two Thousand One by Various Contributors

Testimonials, poems and essays, personal stories, and images from people who were affected by the terrorist attacks in NY. Contributors include Uri Avnery, Israeli Journalist; Noam Chomsky; Richard Dreyfuss; Alan Chin; Deepak Chopra; Mehdi Dadgarian, survivor from 82nd floor 1WTC; Gary Fabiano, photojournalist trapped beneath the rubble; Thomas Friedman; Robert Kennedy Jr.; Martine Maurin, sister-in-law of missing firefighter; Matthew Modine; Liam Neeson; Bill Moyers; Paul Owen, EMT on the scene; Salman Rushdie; Luc Sante; Julian Schnabel; and Blaine and Robert Trump.

Twilight Sky: Air Disaster at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by Tim Vasquez

A chapter is devoted to each of the planes and describes the known events on board, how the hijackers probably took control, technical challenges, and flight profiles based on available data. Also an overview of the state of the airline industry in the wake 9/11, national defense security measures, and the resulting economic impact. Finally, procedural security lapses are discussed, some not yet touched by the news media. Contains 63 pages, 25 photographs, and 21 maps and diagrams; color cover with b&w content.