J. Max Bond, the architect in charge of the World Trade Center memorial, is a master of diplomacy, of bridging differences between competing artistic personalities. He is one of the most respected men in his profession. And he is African-American, astonishingly enough the first to be involved in the Ground Zero project in any way. “With the inclusion of Bond (and Richard Franklin, another African American colleague from his firm), the white male club at Ground Zero has been integrated. It is the story of Bond’s life.”