On Top of the World Cantor Fitzgerald Howard Lutnick and A Story of Loss and Renewal On the morning of September nearly of Cantor Fitzgerald s New York employees were at their desks on the top floors of One World Trade Center when a hijacked passenger plane struck
On the morning of September 11, 2001, nearly 700 of Cantor Fitzgerald s 1,000 New York employees were at their desks on the top floors of One World Trade Center when a hijacked passenger plane struck eight floors below None survived.On Top of the World tells the story not only of that tragic day but also of the complicated and emotionally charged events that followed ItOn the morning of September 11, 2001, nearly 700 of Cantor Fitzgerald s 1,000 New York employees were at their desks on the top floors of One World Trade Center when a hijacked passenger plane struck eight floors below None survived.On Top of the World tells the story not only of that tragic day but also of the complicated and emotionally charged events that followed It is an intimate, often harrowing look at how private families processed a public atrocity, how corporate war room strategy sessions saved the company from liquidation and the efforts of opportunistic competitors.This book examines the media scrutiny that followed Howard Lutnick, who struggled to be at once the compassionate leader the grieving families needed and the tough minded CEO his decimated company required It also tells the story of the men and women of Cantor whose lost coworkers were relatives and friends, and brothers and sisters That Cantor s business has survived and even flourished and that an initially uneasy but ultimately significant covenant has been formed between those who lived and the families of their lost friends is a powerful testament to the ability of a community to endure.
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Tom Barbash
Tom Barbash is the author of the award winning novel The Last Good Chance and the non fiction book On Top of the World Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9 11 A Story of Loss and Renewal, which was a New York Times bestseller His stories and articles have been published in Tin House, McSweeney s, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other publications, and have been performed on National Public Radio s Selected Shorts series He currently teaches in the MFA program at California College of the Arts He grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and now lives in Marin County, California.