Dr. Angus Kress Gillespie - The World Trade Center

Dr. Gillespie describes his research on the World Trade Center, citing examples from both before and after the attacks of September 11th, 2001.

In his book Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center, Gillespie argued that the Twin Towers were more than just office buildings. They were symbols of America, just as the Eiffel Tower and Big Ben represent their countries. Completed in 1976, these edifices were the tallest man-made structures in New York City. After the events of September 11, 2001, that book became a New York Times bestseller. Largely as a result of the tremendous public interest in the Twin Towers, Gillespie has been featured on such television networks as ABC, CNN, CNN Headline News, CNN-International, C-SPAN, NBC, MSNBC, TNN, the History Channel, and the Travel Channel.

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[redilliop]

ANYONE who had a brain could see that the name- WORLD trade center, their size, and their location all show how they're symbolic of America, and its place in the rest of the world. Name one other country that had ANYTHING of this magnitude. YOU CAN'T! AMERICA was/is the ONLY country with the means, the technology, the ambition, the drive to build something like that, and we're NOT putting them back the way they were? I'm with Trump, build them back at 111 stories!!

[redilliop]

@bigmoemiami now the shuttle program is over, another part of the space program that was head and shoulders above the rest of the world.

[bigmoemiami]

The World Trade Center also symbolize the ability of the U.S. to produce gargantuan projects and organizations through the intermarriage of the public and private sector, i.e. WTC, the Space Program, the Military/Industrial complex, the Agro Industrial Complex, the Interstate Highway System, the Centers for Disease Control and so many more. The collapse of WTC symbolizes the end of this collaboration, i.e. Governor Christie's decision not to proceed with the New Jersey Tunnel project.

[n3oml]

Hi Dr. Angus:

I hope you and yours are having a good Christmastime.

Could it be the WTC was a symbol of our victory in WWII? After all, it was WW "II". We dropped exactly two bombs to win the war. The WTC was designed by a Japanese architect, I believe.

John Summers