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Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security

Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security

Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security

by Robert Block, Christopher Cooper and Christopher Cooper
Paperback
Publication Date: 19/07/2007
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"[A] tightly crafted, very readable book . . . the best in-depth contemporary analysis we are going to get."
--Stephen Flynn, The Washington Post

When Hurricane Katrina roared ashore on August 29, 2005, federal and state officials were not prepared for the devastation it would bring. In this searing indictment of what went wrong, Christopher Cooper and Robert Block take readers inside FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security to reveal the inexcusable mismanagement during the crisis--the bad decisions that were made, the facts that were ignored, and the individuals who saw that the system was broken but did nothing to fix it.

In this award-winning and critically acclaimed book, Cooper and Block reconstruct the crucial days before and after the storm hit, laying bare the government's inability to respond to the most elemental needs. They also demonstrate how the Bush administration's obsessive focus on terrorist threats fatally undermined the government's ability to respond to natural disasters. The incompetent response to Hurricane Katrina is a wake-up call to all Americans, wherever they live, about how distressingly vulnerable we remain.

ISBN:
9780805086508
9780805086508
Category:
Social impact of disasters
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
19-07-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Henry Holt & Company
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x152.4x20.07mm
Weight:
0.52kg
Christopher Cooper

Christopher Cooper is an acknowledged expert on energy and environmental policy. He holds a JD in energy law from Vermont Law School and a master's degree in communication from the University of Miami.

Former Senior Fellow at the Institute for Energy and the Environment, Cooper has traveled the globe analyzing the most effective methods of harnessing the sun's energy—from solar towers in South Korea to massive photovoltaic arrays in Mongolia's Gobi Desert.

He writes about the history of science and technology, with an emphasis on the adoption of electricity innovations. Among his other books are The Governance of Energy Megaprojects and Our Sun: Biography of a Star.

Christopher Cooper

Christopher Cooper is an acknowledged expert on energy and environmental policy. He holds a JD in energy law from Vermont Law School and a master's degree in communication from the University of Miami.

Former Senior Fellow at the Institute for Energy and the Environment, Cooper has traveled the globe analyzing the most effective methods of harnessing the sun's energy—from solar towers in South Korea to massive photovoltaic arrays in Mongolia's Gobi Desert.

He writes about the history of science and technology, with an emphasis on the adoption of electricity innovations. Among his other books are The Governance of Energy Megaprojects and Our Sun: Biography of a Star.

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