Disaster
Subtitle: Hurricane Katrina and the failure of Homeland Security
By: Christopher Cooper, Robert Block.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Times Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780805081305
Subjects: Social Science; Natural Disasters; Disaster Relief Services; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; Public Affairs & Administration; Disaster Relief & Rescue Operations; Disasters & Disaster Relief; United States - 21st Century; Social Science / Disasters & Disaster Relief; Disaster relief; Emergency management; Gulf States; Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-317) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Prelude to disaster. The perfect storm ; Water pork ; A mountain of failure ; Homeland insecurity; title: pt. 2. Catastrophe. The big one ; The undodged bullet ; Stranded in New Orleans ; Promises, promises ; Getting control; title: pt. 3. Flotsam and jetsam. The blame game ; Do it yourself ; Reindeer games ; A civic responsibility.