National Book Awards Finalists ...

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 16:41, Dave Monroe wrote:
> The New York Times
> October 13, 2004
> National Book Awards Finalists Include 9/11 Commission
> Report
> By MARIA NEWMAN
>  
> It was released this summer, and quickly made it to
> the best-seller lists of many online book sellers. But
> the 567-page book that today was named as a finalist
> for a National Book Foundation award wasn't a steamy
> romance or even a mystery novel that people toted to
> the beach.
> 
> But read it people did. "The 9/11 Commission Report,"
> the book version of the final report of the group
> investigating the 2001 terrorist attacks, flew off the
> shelves when it was published in July by W.W. Norton &
> Company. 

We bought a copy here but I confess to not having opened it up figuring
to have already heard enough of the worst to satisfy all conceivable
purposes.