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Aug. 26, 2011
A Look Back At 9/11 In ‘I Heard The Sirens Scream’
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| In a new book, “I Heard the Sirens Scream” Pulitzer Prize winner Laurie Garrett gives her account of the World Trade Center attacks ten years ago, and tells how she thinks those events, combined with the anthrax attacks that came shortly after, changed the country’s course. |
Produced by Annette Heist, Senior Producer
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Laurie Garrett
Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
Pulitzer Prize Winner, 1996
Author, "I Heard the Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks" (e-book)
Brooklyn, New York
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I HEARD THE SIRENS SCREAM: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks
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