Pre-Owned The Big Truck That Went By : How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster (Hardcover) 9780230341876

from theonearmedcrab

‘The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster' (2013) was written by Jonathan M. Katz, an American journalist who was in Haiti when the earthquake struck, and writes about the aftermath. His description of the post-earthquake period is quite good, a bala...

from jcbrunner

The contrast between Haiti and the Dominican Republic has already been a case study in Jared Diamond's book Collapse. Since then, besides the political turmoil, Haiti has been hit by a devastating earthquake that hit the country on January 12, 2010. Katz, foreign correspondent for Associated Pres...

from breic

The author, Katz, was an AP reporter in Haiti during and after the 2010 earthquake that killed over 100,000 people. This book tells the story of the earthquake and about the next 18 months, through the subsequent presidential election. The story of the earthquake itself is quite good, and one get...