{"product_id":"9781101152331","title":"The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9\/11","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the senior counsel to the 9\/11 Commission, a mesmerizing real-time portrayal of that day, why we weren't told the truth, and why our nation is still at risk.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As one of the primary authors of the 9\/11 Commission Report, John Farmer is proud of his and his colleagues? work. Yet he came away from the experience convinced that there was a further story to be told, one he was uniquely qualified to write.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Now that story can be told. Tape recordings, transcripts, and contemporaneous records that had been classified have since been declassified, and the inspector general's investigations of government conduct have been completed. Drawing on his knowledge of those sources, as well as his years as an attorney in public and private practice, Farmer reconstructs the truth of what happened on that fateful day and the disastrous circumstances that allowed it: the institutionalized disconnect between what those on the ground knew and what those in power did. He details ?terrifyingly and illuminatingly?the key moments in the years, months, weeks, and days that preceded the attacks, then descends almost in real time through the attacks themselves, portraying them as they have never before been seen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ultimately, Farmer builds the inescapably convincing case that the official version not only is almost entirely untrue but serves to create a false impression of order and security. The ground truth that Farmer captures suggests a very different scenario?one that is doomed to be repeated unless the systemic failures he reveals are confronted and remedied.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134128439536,"sku":"9781101152331","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101152331_p0.jpg?v=1763685333","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101152331","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}