Originally published in September 2001, just a week before the national tragedy of 9/11, Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds remains, a quarter century later, a psychologically illuminating real-life drama about ordinary people and how they behave in extraordinary circumstances. Each of us has wondered what we would do to survive a life-threatening situation. Would I survive? Would I act to save others in need or only myself? Would others try to save me? How would I be affectedby the experience? Judging by what is revealed in Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds—with a new preface and epilogue based on new interviews with survivors and written twenty-five years after the book’s original publication—the answers are optimistic.
Learn MoreBob Cousy, the Hall of Fame Boston Celtics captain who led the team to its first six championships on an unparalleled run, has much to look back on in contentment. But he has one last piece of unfinished business. The last pass he hopes to throw is to close the circle with his great partner on those Celtics teams, fellow Hall of Famer Bill Russell.
Gary M. Pomerantz is a New York Times best-selling author and journalist, and has served the past nineteen years as a lecturer in the Graduate Program in Journalism at Stanford University. Throughout his career, Pomerantz has devoted his writing, and teaching, to American history, race relations, the media, and sports.
His six nonfiction books cover an array of topics. His first book, Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, a multi-generational saga of Atlanta from the Civil War through civil rights, was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times
Gary M Pomerantz is a frequent public speaker and keynote lecturer. For four decades as a nonfiction author and journalist, with his meticulous research and engaging story-telling, Pomerantz has explored American culture and the human condition. Whether the topic is sports, race relations, social history, or the resilience of the human spirit, his thought-provoking speeches entertain and illuminate, and reveal a passion for his work and for the people and times he writes about.
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