NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'This is history at its most immediate and moving...A marvelous and memorable book.' --Jon Meacham 'Remarkable...A priceless civic gift...On page after page, a reader will encounter words that startle, or make him angry, or heartbroken.' --The Wall Street Journal 'Had me turning each page with my heart in my throat...There's been a lot written about 9/11, but nothing like this. I urge you to read it.' --Katie Couric The first comprehensive oral history of September 11, 2001--a panoramic narrative woven from voices on the front lines of an unprecedented national trauma. Over the past eighteen years, monumental literature has been published about 9/11, from Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower to The 9/11 Commission Report. But one perspective has been missing up to this point--a 360-degree account of the day told through firsthand. Now, in The Only Plane in the Sky, Garrett Graff tells the story of the day as it was lived--in the words of those who lived it.
