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Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security
Times Books
August 2006
On Sale: August 8, 2006
352 pages
ISBN: 0805081305
EAN: 9780805081305
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
When Hurricane Katrina roared ashore on the morning of
August 29, 2005, federal and state officials were not
prepared for the devastation it would bring -- despite all
the drills, exercises, and warnings. In this troubling expos
of what went wrong, Christopher Cooper and Robert Block of
The Wall Street Journal show that the flaws go much deeper
than out-of-touch federal bureaucrats or overwhelmed local
politicians. 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. Americas 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 nations emergency
response system. This is a book that no American can afford
to ignore.
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