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Title: Worth having, but...
Review: I would like to have known before ordering that 120+ pages of this book were published by Life 2-3 weeks before, page for page, in a commemorative issue available on newstands - though in paper, and with a different title and cover (curiously, though, the lovely cover photo - a firefighter holding the flag was missing from the hardcover version). I felt misled when I first skimmed this hardcover edition. Later, I realized that there were about 50 extra pages, but photos added to the hardcover weren't that much different from what was in the paper version on newsstands; pages with pictures of individuals at the end was overdone filler; and many photos were very familiar already. Having said all that, one can't argue with the quality of "Life" compilations of photographs, and quality of the book overall (paper, format, photo placements) is very good, with several eye-popping pictures. And it certainly beats presentation in the Magnum Press compilation, also about the WTC attacks.
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