{"product_id":"9781628730579","title":"Reluctant Hero: A 9\/11 Survivor Speaks Out About That Unthinkable Day, What He's Learned, How He's Struggled, and What No One Should Ever Forget","description":"On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, Michael Benfante went to  work, just like he had day after day, at his office on eighty-first  floor in the World Trade Center North Tower. Moments after the  first plane struck, just twelve floors above him, Benfante organized  his terrified employees, getting them out the office and moving  down the stairwells. On his way down, he and another co-worker  encountered a woman in a wheelchair on the sixty-eighth floor.  Benfante, the woman and Benfante’s co-worker then embarked on  a ninety-six-minute odyssey of escape—the two men carrying the  woman down sixty-eight flights of stairs out of the North Tower  and into an ambulance that rushed her to safety just minutes before  the tower imploded. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A CBS video camera caught Benfante just as he got out the  building, and almost immediately, the national media came calling.  Benfante sat on the couch with Oprah Winfrey, where she hailed  him as a hero. Almost one year to the day after 9\/11, Benfante got  married and the woman in the wheelchair sat in the front row. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That’s the storybook ending. But in the aftermath of 9\/11, Benfante  began a journey fraught with wrenching personal challenges of  critical emotional and psychological depth in \u003ci\u003eReluctant Hero\u003c\/i\u003e.  Benfante shares the trappings of his public heroism, the loneliness  of his private anguish, and the hope he finds for himself and for  us. Because all of us—whether we were in the towers, in New York  City, or someplace else—we are all 9\/11 survivors.","brand":"Skyhorse Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172542300400,"sku":"9781628730579","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781628730579_p0.jpg?v=1763868104","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781628730579","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}