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Published to glowing reviews, The Big Truck That Went By is a crucial look at a signal failure of international aid.
Jonathan M. Katz was the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti on January 12, 2010, when the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the island nation. In this visceral first-hand account, Katz takes readers inside the terror of that day, the devastation visited on ordinary Haitians, and through the monumental--yet misbegotten--rescue effort that followed.
More than half of American adults gave money for Haiti, part of a global response totaling $16.3 billion in pledges. But four years later the effort has foundered. Its most important promises-to rebuild safer cities, alleviate severe poverty, and strengthen Haiti to face future disasters-remain unfulfilled. How did so much generosity amount to so little? What went wrong?
In what a Miami Herald Op-Ed called "the most important written work to emerge from the rubble," Katz follows the money to uncover startling truths about how good intentions go wrong, and what can be done to make aid "smarter." Reporting alongside Bill Clinton, Wyclef Jean, Sean Penn, and Haiti's leaders and people, Katz creates a complex, darkly funny, and unexpected portrait of one of the world's most fascinating countries. The Big Truck That Went By is not only a definitive account of Haiti's earthquake, but of the world we live in today.
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Politics and government, Disaster relief, Economic conditions, Earthquake relief, American Humanitarian assistance, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010, American Economic assistance, Katastrophenhilfe, Relief Work, Socioeconomic Factors, Haiti Earthquake (2010) fast (OCoLC)fst01755752, Politics, Economic history, Erdbeben, Earthquakes, Political corruption, International relief, Haiti, social conditions, Haiti, politics and governmentShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
2014, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Big Truck That Went By: how the world came to save Haiti and left behind a disaster
2013, Palgrave MacMillan, Palgrave Macmillan, St. Martin's Press, Katz, Jonathan M.
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