Don't Look Back: The 343 FDNY Firefighters Killed on 9-11 and the Fight for the Truth

by Joe Calderone

Overview

"Joe Calderone is a former NY Daily News investigative reporter who knows his stuff when it comes to the FDNY and he has crafted a novel that helps shine a light on the incredible challenges and sacrifices firefighters made on 9/11, including the 343 members of the FDNY we lost that day under the most tragic of circumstances. There were communication failures on 9/11 that no doubt contributed to the loss of life and this novel will help remind us to not repeat those mistakes ever again. Calderone has done the FDNY a service."
—Michael Regan, former First Deputy Commissioner, FDNY

"This is a novel about the most painful day in New York City history and its aftermath, as reporters and investigators struggled to uncover the official blunders of Rudy Giuliani's City Hall that made a tragic day worse. Joe Calderone uses all his tools as one of New York's best investigative reporters, as well as a panoramic knowledge of the city, to offer a vivid tale of people in search of a difficult truth."
—Tom Robbins, Pulitzer Prize finalist and Investigative Journalist In Residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185662922
Publisher:	Post Hill Press
Publication date:	07/26/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Joe Calderone served as Investigations Editor of the New York Daily News at the time of the World Trade Center attack and helped cover the FDNY in the aftermath of 9/11, including documenting the problems firefighters had communicating via radio that day. Calderone worked as a newspaper editor and reporter for more than twenty-five years, including covering City Hall for New York Newsday. While with Newsday, he was a member of a team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. He is a long-time adjunct instructor at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, where he teaches investigative reporting. He considers himself fortunate to have attended Holy Cross High School in Flushing, Queens, and he holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in United States history from the University of Maryland at College Park.