{"product_id":"better-angels-hardcover","title":"Better Angels (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(152, 1, 1);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBetter Angels releases on September 5, 2026. Order yours today!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe remember the number: 343. This book remembers the people. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn September 11, 2001, 343 members of the FDNY lost their lives. In the years since, the number itself has become part of American memory. But every number had a name, a family, a firehouse, a history, a personality, and a life already in progress.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBetter Angels: The Firefighters of 9\/11\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e brings those lives forward again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist Dawn Howkinson Siebel spent more than thousands of hours over six years creating individual portraits of the fallen firefighters on burned blocks of wood. In partnership with the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, the completed Better Angels exhibition traveled across the United States, including a presentation at the World Financial Center overlooking the World Trade Center site.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow the portraits are gathered with some of the stories behind the faces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere are legendary chiefs and young probationary firefighters. Fathers whose children had not yet been born. Brothers who entered the fire service together. Coaches, musicians, veterans, carpenters, cooks, practical jokers, marathoners, and men who had spent years waiting for the chance to join the FDNY. Some were off duty and went anyway. Some were preparing to retire. Some were still climbing when others were coming down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir stories unfold alongside the events of September 11, the experiences of survivors, the other first responders who died that day, and the continuing toll of 9\/11-related illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbraham Lincoln called upon “the better angels of our nature.” For Dawn Siebel, these firefighters embodied that ideal: ordinary human beings capable of extraordinary service to others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThree hundred forty-three is a number. Better Angels remembers 343 lives.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dawn Siebel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54639961899287,"sku":"DHS-BA911-HC-1","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0301\/3604\/1571\/files\/260804BAFrontCoverCandidate2.jpg?v=1786297500","url":"https:\/\/geniusbookpublishing.com\/products\/better-angels-hardcover","provider":"Genius Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}