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Index
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Contents
Prologue
Halftitle page
Plates
Part I Predicate to Action
Chapter 1 Compelling Civic Mandates
Assuring Global Position
Asserting Resilience
Repairing the Fiscal Fallout
A Site with History
The Arc of Rebuilding
Chapter 2 Clashing Private Ambitions
Capturing the “Prize of All Prizes”
Unlocking an Aggressive Agenda
Falling out of Alignment
A Dysfunctional Document
Chapter 3 Commanding Political Opportunities
The State Takes Charge
Wounded Power
Rivals in Opportunity
Chapter 4 Purse Power
Money from Washington
Two States in the Board Room
“Part Event, Part Symbol, and All Real Estate”
Part II Tangled Start (2001–2004)
Chapter 5 “It’s Our City”
Hives of Activity
What about a Swap?
Contention Ahead
Chapter 6 “It’s Our Site”
Underground Control
Buyouts and Payouts
Not so Fast
Chapter 7 Who’s in Charge?
A Failed Beginning
Striving for Legitimacy
Doing its Own Thing
The Governor’s Power
Political Decisions
Chapter 8 A Master Plan Emerges
Determining the Memorial Mission
The Footprints
Memorial Assertion
Accommodation Struggles
Part III Challenges to the Plan (2005–2006)
Chapter 9 Open to Revision
Rapid Disillusionment
Designing an Icon
A Letter from the NYPD
Goldman Sachs Balks
Financial Ties to Security
A New Design and a New Narrative
Chapter 10 Imbroglio over Culture
Process Less than Transparent
Game Changer
Boycott Politics
Collapsed Ambitions
Loss Hierarchy
Press Power
Reverberations
Chapter 11 Memory Politics
Immediate Compromises
The Names
Money Issues
Reining in Costs
The Mayor Takes Over
Part IV Political Pivot (2006–2007)
Chapter 12 Larry’s Quest
Battling for a Double Payout
Larry’s PR Campaign
The Downtown Office Gamble
Open Attack
Chapter 13 Political Pivot
Power Politics
Fighting through Numbers
Campaigning for Public Support
Chapter 14 The Squeeze
“The Toothpaste is out of the Tube”
Working Back Channels
The Blame Game
Boxed-in Acceptance
Realigned Roles
Watershed
Part V Troubled Execution (2008–2010)
Chapter 15 Transportation Phoenix
The Octopus beneath the Dove
Accommodating History
Role Reversal
Chapter 16 Institutional Failure
Spotlight on Delay
The Funding Relationship
Spiraling out of Control
Crisis Control
Chapter 17 “It’s a Construction Job Now”
Chris Ward: Reframing the Crisis
The Litmus Test
Build the Roof First
Institutional Recast
Chapter 18 Stalemate over Subsidy
Larry’s Lost Opportunities
Positioning in the Press
Locked in Position
Chapter 19 The Gains of Brinkmanship
The Adversaries Face a Deadline
No Longer Monopoly Money
Terse and Intense Negotiations
The Deal, for Real
Stacked Subsidies
“Everyone Got a Fig Leaf”
Part VI Deliverance (2011–2016)
Chapter 20 Reckoning Anew
Undisciplined Costs
Museum of Memory
Entropy Continues
Tower of Ambition
Chapter 21 Ambition and Legacy
Ironies of Power
The Press Gap
The Leadership Factor
Beyond Rebuilding
Epilogue
Dramatis Personae
List of Source Abbreviations
Selective Chronology of the Rebuilding of the World Trade Center Site: 2001–2016
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
Note on the Author’s Sources of Information
Selective Primary Documents
List of Interviews
Notes
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Index
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