Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security
Block, Robert; Cooper, Christopher
Language: English
Published by Times Books, 2006
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- Title
- Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security
- Author
- Block, Robert; Cooper, Christopher
- Publisher
- Times Books
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0805081305
- ISBN 13
- 9780805081305
Drawing on exclusive interviews with federal, state, and local officials, Cooper and Block take readers inside the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security to reveal the inexcusable mismanagement during Hurricane Katrina--the bad decisions that were made, the facts that were ignored, the individuals who saw that the system was broken but were unable to fix it. America's top emergency response officials had long known that a calamitous hurricane was likely to hit New Orleans, but that seems to have had little effect on planning or execution.
Disaster demonstrates that the incompetent response to Hurricane Katrina is a wake-up call to all Americans, wherever they live, about how distressingly vulnerable we remain. Washington is ill equipped to handle large-scale emergencies, be they floods or fires, natural events or terrorist attacks, and Cooper and Block make a strong case for overhauling of the nation's emergency response system. This is a book that no American can afford to ignore.
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