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James B. Stewart

James B. Stewart is a staff writer at The New Yorker.

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The Real Heroes Are Dead
a reporter at large ·

James B. Stewart’s 2002 piece on the September 11th hero Rick Rescorla, who died evacuating one of the World Trade Center towers after they were attacked by Al-Qaeda.

Battle on the Sny
annals of disaster ·

ANNALS OF DISASTER about the flooding of the Mississippi, especially in the area around Quincy, Illinois. On Wednesday, June 30th, at about 10 p.m., as …