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　　This important book by one of our leading experts on disaster

preparedness offers a compelling narrative about our nation’s

inability to properly plan for large-scale disasters and proposes

changes that can still be made to assure the safety of its

citizens.

Five years after 9/11 and one year after Hurricane Katrina, it is

painfully clear that the government’s emergency response capacity

is plagued by incompetence and a paralyzing bureaucracy. Irwin

Redlener, who founded and directs the National Center for Disaster

Preparedness, brings his years of experience with disasters and

health care crises, national and international, to an incisive

analysis of why our health care system, our infrastructure, and our

overall approach to disaster readiness have left the nation

vulnerable, virtually unable to respond effectively to catastrophic

events. He has had frank, and sometimes shocking, conversations

about the failure of systems during and after disasters with a

broad spectrum of people—from hospital workers and FEMA officials

to Washington policy makers and military leaders. And he also

analyzes the role of nongovernmental organizations, such as the

American Red Cross in the aftermath of Katrina.

Redlener points out how a government with a track record of

over-the-top cronyism and a stunning disregard for accountability

has spent billions on “random acts of preparedness,” with very

little to show for it—other than an ever-growing bureaucracy. As a

doctor, Redlener is especially concerned about America’s

increasingly dysfunctional and expensive health care system,

incapable of handling a large-scale public health emergency, such

as pandemic flu or widespread bioterrorism. And he also looks at

the serious problem of a disengaged, uninformed citizenry—one of

the most important obstacles to assuring optimal readiness for any

major crisis.

Redlener describes five natural and man-made disaster scenarios

as a way to imagine what we might face, what our current systems

would and would not prepare us for, and what would constitute

optimal planning—for government and the public—in each situation.

To see what could be learned from others, he points up some of the

more effective ways countries in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East

have dealt with various disasters. And he concludes with a real

pre*ion: a nine-point proposal for how America can be better

prepared as well as an addendum of what citizens themselves can

do.

An essential book for our time, Americans at Risk is a

devastating and realistic account of where we stand today.

I After the Strom

II How Is America Still Vulnerable？

III Why Were Not Prepared:Four Barriers to Optimal Readiness

IV Making America Sater:what We Need to Do Now

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