2. Dispatches From the Edge
Book number two:
Dispatches From the Edge by Anderson Cooper
This was a really great book, even if it could at times be a little repetitive. It really puts thing in perspective. The stories about malnutrition in Niger and Somali were pretty hard to swallow. The chapters about Katrina, however, are particularly striking.
"I've always thought that New Year's Eve is proof that human beings are essentially optimistic creatures. Despite hundreds of years of pathetic parties and hellish hangovers, we continue to cling to the notion that it's possible to have fun on that night. It's not. There's too much pressure, too many expectations, too few bathrooms."
"'We look at each other with maybe too much hubris and say, "This is America, this doesn't happen here,"' Dr. Henderson says, sitting with me amid a pile of rubbish on the curb outside the Convention Center. 'This is disgraceful. This is a national disgrace. Nowhere in this country should that ever have to happen again. But unless we learn from this, it's going to be very ugly 'cause it's going to happen again.'"
|A Study in Scarlet|Dispatches From the Edge|
Dispatches From the Edge by Anderson Cooper
This was a really great book, even if it could at times be a little repetitive. It really puts thing in perspective. The stories about malnutrition in Niger and Somali were pretty hard to swallow. The chapters about Katrina, however, are particularly striking.
"I've always thought that New Year's Eve is proof that human beings are essentially optimistic creatures. Despite hundreds of years of pathetic parties and hellish hangovers, we continue to cling to the notion that it's possible to have fun on that night. It's not. There's too much pressure, too many expectations, too few bathrooms."
"'We look at each other with maybe too much hubris and say, "This is America, this doesn't happen here,"' Dr. Henderson says, sitting with me amid a pile of rubbish on the curb outside the Convention Center. 'This is disgraceful. This is a national disgrace. Nowhere in this country should that ever have to happen again. But unless we learn from this, it's going to be very ugly 'cause it's going to happen again.'"
|A Study in Scarlet|Dispatches From the Edge|