by Richard 'Pitch' Picciotto, Daniel Paisner · Orion · tapa dura · ISBN 9780752852621
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«Last Man Down: The Fireman's Story» is the autobiographical account by Richard 'Pitch' Picciotto and Daniel Paisner, in hardcover (236 pages, English).
FDNY commander Richard 'Pitch' Picciotto recounts 9/11: he was climbing with seven companies up stairwell B of Tower 1 when Tower 2 fell. His knowledge of the complex since 1993 allowed him to find an escape route and rescue workers who could not evacuate. He describes how he was buried when Tower 1 collapsed and survived with his men.
First edition from Orion (2002), in English, with a postscript added for the 9/11 anniversary.
For readers of recent history and survival memoirs, especially those interested in 9/11 and the New York Fire Department.
Daniel Paisner is an American journalist, author, and podcaster. He is best known for his work as a ghostwriter and collaborator. He has published more than eighty books, including seventeen New York Times best-sellers. He is also the author of four novels, and several works of non-fiction. His novel Balloon Dog was published by Koehler Books in 2022; his previous novel A Single Happened Thing was published by Relegation Books in 2016. His non-fiction books include Show: The Making and Unmaking of a Network Television Pilot - "a devastating chronicle of an aborted television series," according the Publishers Weekly. The book was reissued in a new edition, with a new forward, by Cutting Edge Books, in 2023. He is also the author of The Ball: Mark McGwire's 70th Home Run Ball and the Marketing of the American Dream, which was published by Viking in 1999 and hailed by ESPN.com as "one of the great quirky masterpieces of baseball journalism." His best-selling collaborations include The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow (2008), The Power of Broke (2016), and Last Man Down (2002).
