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Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2005

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I was very happy with the book. It was delivered in a good time. The price was right for the book. I appreciate the fact it was in great condition. I would buy from again.

This is an important book and obligatory reading for all either interested in homeland security or professionally involved with it. It is also a facinating, and, for most readers, little known history of the US, the government, the major catastrophes that affected this country, and the recovery. While recommended for all as a simply very good read, the book ought to become a standard text used at all college and university courses devoted to homeland security. It also should become a permanent part of every emergency manager's library (as well as a handy "memento mori" symbol) and constitute an integral part of several intra-governmental education programs devoted to homeland security, politics, public administration, etc. For lay readers the principal value of the book rests in a factual exposure to highly fascinating field whose importance and impact on our daily lives grows exponentially. By vividly portraying the vast, exceedingly complex nature of emergency management operations, the authors also show that the accusations of "bungling the job" are at times too readily professed, and too often made without adequate factual knowledge. Or that bungling actually did take place simply because factual knowledge had been ignored or forgotten.
Most recommended.

This edition was awarded the 2008 Book Prize by the American Society for Public Administration,Section on Environment and Natural Resources Administration (SENRA).