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On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the European Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to manage one. Jonathan M. Katz, the sole full-time American information correspondent in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with thousands of others. In this visceral first-hand consideration, Katz takes visitors inside the terror of this day, the devastation stopped at on normal Haitians, and through the monumental--yet misbegotten--rescue work that followed. More than half of American adults provided money for Haiti, part of a global response that reached $16.3 billion in pledges. But three years later the effort has foundered. Its most important promises--to repair safer cities, relieve severe poverty, and bolster Haiti to handle future disasters--remain unfulfilled. How did so much generosity total so little? What gone incorrect? The Big Vehicle That Went By presents a hard reaching research into international help, finding that the way rich countries give today makes poor countries appear irredeemably hopeless, while trapping hundreds of thousands in cycles of privation and catastrophe. Katz follows the money to discover startling truths about how good intentions fail, and what you can do to make help "smarter." Confirming at the side of Costs Clinton, Wyclef Jean, Sean Penn, Haiti's market leaders and people, Katz also creates a complex, darkly funny, and sudden portrait of 1 of the world's most fascinating countries. THE TOP Truck That PASSED isn't just a definitive consideration of Haiti's earthquake, but of the world we reside in today.
