A gripping & authoritative account of the 9/11 attack, its historical roots & its aftermath: Few news stories in recent memory have commanded as much attention as the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center & the Pentagon, but no news organization rivaled The NY Times for its comprehensive, resourceful, in-depth & thoughtful coverage. This effort may well emerge as the finest hour in the paper's distinguished 150-year history. In an unprecedented commitment, the Times assigned one of its most skilled reporters, Richard Bernstein, to turn the newspaper's incisive reporting into a riveting narrative of 9/11. Following the lives of heroes, victims & terrorists, he weaves a complex tale of a multitude of lives colliding in conflagration on that fateful morning. He takes us inside the AlQaeda organization & the lives of the terrorists, from their indoctrination into radical Islam to the harrowing moments aboard the aircraft as they raced toward their terrible destiny. We meet cops & firefighters & become intimate with some of the Trade Center workers lost on that day. We follow the lives of the rest of America-ordinary citizens & national leaders alike-in the hours & days after the attack. Finally, he chronicles the nation's astonishing response in the aftermath. No account of this singular moment in American history will be as sharp, readable & authoritative as Out of the Blue.