Professor Angus K. Gillespie is a graduate of Yale University and a Fulbright Scholar. As a researcher, he likes to take a monumental work of civil engineering and analyze it for its cultural implications. This technique was used in Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike, co-authored with Michael Aaron Rockland in 1989, and again in Gillespie's most recent academic book, Twin Towers: The Life of New York City¹s World Trade Center, first published in late 1999. After the events of September 11, 2001, that book became a New York Times bestseller. Largely as a result of tremendous public interest in the Twin Towers, Gillespie has been featured on such television networks as ABC, CNN, CNN Headline News, CNN-International, C-SPAN, NBC, MSNBC, TNN, the History Channel, and the Travel Channel.

 He has been twice listed in the reference series Who¹s Who as one of "the best teachers in America."



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