It Takes a Nation: How Strangers Became Family in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina

by Laura Dawn, Laura Dawn, Barack Obama (Foreword by)

It Takes a Nation tells the extraordinary story of how thousands of Americans came together to provide shelter, sustenance, and hope to the survivors of Hurricane Katrina through MoveOn.org's Hurricane Housing website. Volunteers brought aid to evacuees by providing much needed housing, cars, jobs, clothes, health care, and most importantly, community and offering a positive contrast to the national shame that was widely felt about the Bush administration's handling of the Katrina crisis. It Takes a Nation presents candid, first-person accounts and portraits that are a moving testament to the power of everyday people to make miracles happen.

128 pages, Paperback

First published July 29, 2006

Reviews

[Roni · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is in photo-journal format which I enjoy the most. I get to insight views on these people who lived and experienced through the Hurricane Katrina. Be beware that few of these people who were interviewed left a few sentences and that's it. Even though our own government fails us, but our community takes it up in their own way to provide assistance to our people, regardless if they are Americans or not.