David Friend: Watching the World Change
Watching the World Change is a unique and powerfully affecting account of the most universally observed news event in human history: the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Friend tells the stories behind the images that altered our sense of the world forever — from the happenstance shots taken by bystanders as the north tower was struck to the now-iconic tableau of three firefighters raising the American flag at the site that would soon be known as Ground Zero.
Author and journalist Christopher Hitchens said of Watching the World Change: “At last we have a book that looks steadily through the lens and does not flinch, but which cancels voyeurism by its care and measure and by the multiplicity of its perspectives.”
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:30:00 -0700
Location: Chautauqua, NY, Hall of Philosophy, Chautauqua Institution
Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2010/07/29/David_Friend_Watching_the_World_Change
