Book of the Moment

Although published two years ago, and covering a topic now ten years old, Eric Klinenberg's Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago is timely for the parallels between the local government's handling of the 1995 heat wave that killed almost 800 and the federal government's handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster this last week. The author's recent article at Slate spells it all out.



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