Deadly indifference
Subtitle: the perfect (political) storm : Hurricane Katrina, the Bush White House, and beyond
By: Michael D. Brown and Ted Schwarz
Contributors: Schwarz, Ted, 1945-
Publisher: Taylor Trade Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781589794856; 9781589794863
Subjects: Emergency management; Politics and government; Government policy; United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; Officials and employees; Apathy; United States; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; Mass media; History; Biography; Disaster relief
Description: "At last, former Under Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Brown--infamously praised by President George W. Bush for doing a "heck of a job" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina--tells his side of the response of one of the greatest natural disasters to occur in the United States. Without making excuses for anyone, least of all the President of the United States or himself, Brown describes in detail what ultimately turned out to be the largest federal response to a natural disaster in U.S. history. In a revelation that will surprise critics who accused the Bush administration of nonchalance, if not outright indifference to the calamity, Brown and his team had run a full-blown simulation of a Category 4 hurricane striking New Orleans fully a year before Katrina came ashore in 2005"--Dust jacket flap.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Welcome to D.C.; title: A little background; title: They warned me there'd be storms like Katrina; title: The city built underwater; title: Hurricane Charley, our baptism under fire; title: Disaster politics; title: Anticipation becomes reality; title: The aftermath begins; title: The violence begins; title: The media intrudes; title: How media fuels indifference; title: You live where?; title: Afterword; title: Appendix 1: Behind the scenes : what you didn't read, see, or hear; title: Appendix 2.