I was just sent an interesting new book, Safeguarding Homeland Security: Governors And Mayors Speak Out (Springer), edited by Simon Hakim and Erwin A. Blackstone. The book is comprised of individual chapters written, as the title indicates, primarily by state and local officials about their own experiences with some aspect of homeland security.
Several of the [...]
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New Book Offers State/Local Homeland Security Models, Asks ‘Would You Pay To Prepare Yourself & Your Family?’ (Almost One-Third Of Israelis Said ‘Yes’)
November 18th, 2009 · No Comments
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New Book Recalls Big 1938 East Coast Hurricane, But Focuses More On Stormy Family Saga
November 8th, 2009 · No Comments
The hurricane of 1938 that battered the East Coast plays a key role in Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor (Little, Brown), a well-reviewed memoir written by an old friend of mine, Tad Friend. Tad is a staff member of the The New Yorker.
Though the major storm is a key event [...]
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