The 93-year-old commercial real estate developer Larry Silverstein is a remarkable man. He had the tenacity, vision, and expertise to overcome interfering and incompetent New York politicians, and Port Authority bureaucrats, to rebuild Lower Manhattan after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.

Silverstein tells the story of his trials and tribulations in his aptly titled book The Rising: The 20-year battle to rebuild the World Trade Center.

Shortly after taking office in 1995, Governor George Pataki announced that the World Trade Center (WTC) twin towers were poorly managed by its overseers, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PA).

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