Tom McMillan
Auteur van Flight 93: The Story, the Aftermath, and the Legacy of American Courage on 9/11
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Tom McMillan has spent a lifetime in media and communications-as a newspaper sportswriter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, among others, as a radio talk-show host, and for the past seventeen years as vice president of communications for the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins. He also serves on the board of toon meer directors of Pittsburgh's Heinz History Center, on the marketing committee of the Gettysburg Foundation, as a tour guide for the Civil War Room at Carnegie Library, as an adjunct professor of media and marketing at Point Park University, and as a volunteer at the Flight 93 National Memorial. toon minder
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Werken van Tom McMillan
Flight 93: The Story, the Aftermath, and the Legacy of American Courage on 9/11 (2014) 46 exemplaren
Gettysburg Rebels: Five Native Sons Who Came Home to Fight as Confederate Soldiers (2017) 29 exemplaren
Armistead and Hancock: Behind the Gettysburg Legend of Two Friends at the Turning Point of the Civil War (2021) 14 exemplaren
Not my party : the rise and fall of Canadian Tories, from Robert Stanfield to Stephen Harper (2016) 5 exemplaren
Our Flag Was Still There: The Star Spangled Banner that Survived the British and 200 Years―And the Armistead Family… (2023) 4 exemplaren
Kiln Drying Wood 1 exemplaar
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This was published in 2014, and includes information that was not available for books written earlier. It draws upon the results of the various investigations made related to the 9/11 attacks in general, and Flight 93 in particular. We learn more about how the terrorist attacks were planned. We also learn about the souls who were on the plane, and about the aftermath of the Flight 93 crash; also, it details the planning and construction of the Flight 93 Memorial in rural Somerset County, PA.
I had a few minor annoyances with the book relating to the unnecessary repetition of some pieces of information. Overall, though, I thought this was an excellent account of what happened, as best as anyone can know.
The book was written so that the average reader should be able to follow the narrative easily; there are extensive source notes, a bibliography, and an index at the end of the book.… (meer)