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The test of our times : America under siege-- and how we can be safe again / Tom Ridge with Lary Bloom.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ridge, Thomas J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terrorism--United States--Prevention.
- Terrorism.
- United States.
- Terrorism--Government policy--United States.
- Terrorism--Government policy.
- United States. Department of Homeland Security.
- Emergency management--United States.
- Emergency management.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 288 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2009.
- Contents:
- To the fields of Shanksville
- We're all expendable
- A powder keg
- Culture of secrecy
- The colors of fear (and laughter)
- The politics of terrorism
- Underneath the scenes
- "Buttoning up" Iraq
- Matthew Broderick's day off
- Anthrax at the Oscars
- Internationally speaking
- Christmas orange
- FEMA and the gathering storm
- E pluribus unum
- An enlightened congress
- Beliefs and choices.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780312534875
- 0312534876
- OCLC:
- 316019742
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