Power at Ground Zero: Politics, Money, and the Remaking of Lower ManhattanThe destruction of the World Trade Center complex on 9 11 set in motion a chain of events that fundamentally transformed both the United States and the wider world. War has raged in the Middle East for a decade and a half, and Americans have become accustomed to surveillance, enhanced security, and periodic terrorist attacks. But the symbolic locus of the post 9 11 world has always been Ground Zero the sixteen acres in Manhattan's financial district