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On Top of the World : Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9/11: a Story of Loss and Renewal by Tom Barbash (2003, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100060510293

ISBN-139780060510299

eBay Product ID (ePID)2216647

Product Key Features

Book TitleOn Top of the World : Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9/11 :A Story of Loss and Renewal

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

TopicTerrorism, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Religious, General, United States / 21st Century, Industries / Financial Services, Business

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History

AuthorTom Barbash

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight21.5 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-027550

Reviews"Written with the urgency of breaking news...The individual stories take one's breath away." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution "A sensitive and heartbreaking account....The book has enormous emotional power." -- New York Newsday "Gripping." -- New York Times Book Review

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal332.6/2/097471

SynopsisOn the morning of September 11, 2001, nearly seven hundred of Cantor Fitzgerald's one thousand New York employees were at their desks on the top floors of One World Trade Center when a hijacked passenger plane struck eight floors below. Not one of them lived. Their friends and colleagues who survived did so through random luck: They missed a train, had a business trip, took a sick day, or, in the case of CEO Howard Lutnick, dropped off his son at his first day of kindergarten. On Top of the World tells the story not only of that tragic day but also of the complicated and emotionally charged events that followed in its wake. It is an intimate, often harrowing look at how private families processed a public atrocity, how corporate war-room strategy sessions saved the company from liquidation and the efforts of opportunistic competitors. The book examines the media scrutiny that followed Lutnick, a man who lost his brother and so many friends, who struggled to be at once the compassionate leader the grieving families needed and the tough-minded CEO his decimated company required. Finally, On Top of the World tells the story of a group of men and women -- some of whom were just starting out, others who had succeeded well beyond their expectations -- who were building homes and raising families together, who hired relatives and friends, and the brothers and sisters of those friends. That their business has survived and even flourished -- and that an initially uneasy but ultimately significant covenant has been formed between those who lived and the families of their lost friends is a powerful testament to the ability of a community to endure.

LC Classification NumberHG4928.5.L886 2002