The Big Truck That Went by by Jonathan M Katz
In The Big Truck That Went By award-winning writer Jonathan Katz ties together the two crises that continue to cripple Haiti: the aftermath of the earthquake and government corruption. Asking the hard questions about Western aid, this is a vividly told narrative of how the affluent nations can help the less fortunate in a smarter way.
'In a book that is an absorbing mixture of memoir, reportage and investigation, Katz tries to find out how the global relief effort backfired so badly and what happened to the money raised' -Ian Birrell, The World Today 'The Big Truck That Went By is supremely valuable for collecting the chatter, statistics and anecdotes into a damning dossier...' - London Review of Books "A fascinating account of national and international political maneuvers after the earthquake in Haiti and the strategies of ordinary Haitians in the struggle for daily existence" - Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs magazine
JONATHAN KATZ is the 2010 recipient of the Medill Medal of Courage in Journalism and the 2012 winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for this book. He has written for the AP for six years, reporting on the Mexican drug wars, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the battle that is Washington politics. He was stationed in Haiti for nearly three and a half years and was the only American reporter in the country when the earthquake hit on January 12, 2010. He routinely appears as an expert on Haiti for television and radio, with interviews on ABC news, BBC World Service, WNBC, NBC Nightly News, NPR, CBC Television, and Democracy Now. Currently he's an editor for the Associated Press based in New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780230341876 |
| ISBN 10 | 023034187X |
| Title | The Big Truck That Went by |
| Author | Jonathan M Katz |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Year published | 2013-01-08 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Commended for Helen Bernstein Book Award 2014 |
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