Viccc’s Reviews > A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster > Status Update

Books that make you understand the ways in which the history you're learning about is applicable to the present day are so fun to read. This author will NOT let you forget that the 1906 Earthquake and Hurricane Katrina showed the same pattern of authorities lying about victims' behavior and using that as a justification for inaction (at best) or brutality (at worst).