| It Takes a Nation: How Strangers Became Family in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina Contributor(s): Dawn, Laura (Editor), Smith, C. B. (Photographer), Obama, Barack Hussein (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1932771867 ISBN-13: 9781932771862 Publisher: Earth Aware Editions OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2006 Annotation: Edited by the cultural director of MoveOn.org, IT TAKES A NATION tells the extraordinary story of how thousands of Americans came together to provide shelter, sustenance, and hope to survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Through MoveOn.org's Hurricane Housing website, volunteers brought aid to evacuees by providing housing, cars, jobs, clothes, healthcare, and, perhaps most important, community. Presenting a positive contrast to the national shame that was widely felt about the Bush administration's handling of the Katrina crisis, these candid first-person accounts and portraits are a moving testament to the power of everyday people to make miracles happen. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Natural Disasters |
| Dewey: 976.335 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 9.98" W x 10.1" (1.63 lbs) 134 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In early September of 2006, as Hurricane Katrina's devastation was fully realised, MoveOn.org sprang into action, creating HurricaneHousing.org to bring volunteers together with those in need, to find housing across the country, volunteers who opened up their homes and their hearts to the evacuees. It Takes a Nation is the amazing story of this project, in the words of those who participated providing homes and hope, and those in need; stories from across the nation, ultimately uniting a nation. |