No Better Time
Molly Knight Raskin
(Author)
Description
Danny Lewin's brilliant but brief life is largely unknown because, until now, those closest to him have guarded their memories and quietly mourned their loss. For Lewin was almost certainly the first victim of 9/11, stabbed to death at age 31 while trying to overpower the terrorists who would eventually fly American Flight 11 into the World Trade Center. But ironically it was 9/11 that proved the ultimate test for Lewin's vision--while phone communication failed and web traffic surged as never before, the critical news and government sites that relied on Akamai -- and the technology pioneered by Danny Lewin -- remained up and running.
Product Details
| Publisher | Da Capo |
| Publish Date | September 10, 2013 |
| Pages | 264 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780306821660 |
| Dimensions | 9.3 X 6.3 X 1.3 inches | 1.2 pounds |
About the Author
MollyKnightRaskin.com
Reviews
"Bittersweet but celebratory."
Booklist, 9/1/13
"Little-known but thoroughly captivating life story... A superlatively written and well-deserved tribute to an overlooked internet pioneer and true American hero."
Tablet Magazine, 9/11/13
"[A] terrific new biography."
Winnipeg Free Press, 9/9/13
"No Better Time is the chronicle of a man who gave his life to technology and gave his life for mankind."
The Daily Beast, 9/17/13
"This is Lewin's fascinating biography, but it is also a history of the Internet, and those who took it from clunky dial-up service to the speed-of-light marvel. It is also the story of the September 11 attacks themselves, and how they ground the exuberance of the 1990s to a halt. Raskin has meticulously reconstructed the buoyancy of the '90s dot-com boom, and her restraint in covering the attacks lends a sober poignancy to Lewin's story."
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