Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security

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 did nothing to fix it. America's top emergency response officials had long known that a calamitous hurricane was likely to hit New Orleans, but that had little effect on planning or execution.