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Author Kneeland, Timothy W., 1962- author.

Title Playing politics with natural disaster : Hurricane Agnes, the 1972 election, and the origins of FEMA / Timothy W. Kneeland.

Publication Info. Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2020.
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 227 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Local Disasters, Government Actors, and National Policy -- American Disaster Policy through 1972 : Growing Benefits and Expanding Federal Authority -- Agnes Makes Landfall : Death and Destruction in New York and Pennsylvania -- Who's in Charge? : Local Governments Collapse in the Face of Disaster -- Playing Politics with Disaster : Relief and the 1972 Election -- "I Have a HUD-Ache" : Public Discontent over Disaster Aid -- "Better than Ever"? Rebuilding amidst Industrial Decline -- Without Warning and Defenseless : The Weather Service and Civil Defense before and after Hurricane Agnes -- The Risky Business of Flood Control : When Dams and Levees Put People at Greater Risk of Flood -- The Disaster Relief Act of 1974 : Richard Nixon and the Creation of Emergency Management -- Epilogue : Into the Future.
Summary "In Playing Politics with Natural Disaster, Timothy Kneeland describes how the administration of Richard Nixon exploited the Hurricane Agnes flooding for political gain and then eroded a generation of natural disaster legislation that had been steadily moving toward the federalization of United States natural disaster policy. With a strong focus on specific events in New York and Pennsylvania, Kneeland narrates how local, state, and federal authorities responded to the immediate crisis and then managed the long term recovery from Hurricane Agnes which caused billions of dollars in damage from Florida to New York and led to the death of 122 people. Kneeland's book will be the first to consider the Agnes disaster in terms of its multi-state consequences and to explain how the political response to the disaster shaped both state and federal natural disaster policy from that time to the present era"-- Provided by publisher
Language In English.
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Subject United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
Hurricane Agnes, 1972 -- Political aspects.
Hurricanes -- Political aspects -- New York (State)
Hurricanes -- Political aspects -- Pennsylvania.
Natural disasters -- Political aspects -- United States.
Disaster relief -- Political aspects -- United States.
Disaster relief -- Government policy -- United States.
Emergency management -- Political aspects -- United States.
Emergency management -- Government policy -- United States.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Disaster relief -- Government policy
Disaster relief -- Political aspects
Emergency management -- Government policy
Natural disasters -- Political aspects
New York (State)
Pennsylvania
United States
Hurricane Agnes (1972)
Chronological Term 1972
Indexed Term Richard Nixon, Corning, Wilkes-Barre, Floods, MIlton Shapp, Frank Carlucci, Amory Houghton, Daniel J. Flood, Joseph Sartoti Jr.
Other Form: Print version: Kneeland, Timothy W., 1962- Playing politics with natural disaster. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020 9781501748530 (DLC) 2019024694
ISBN 9781501748554 (electronic book)
1501748556 (electronic book)
9781501748547 (electronic book)
1501748548 (electronic book)
9781501748530 (hardcover)
Standard No. 10.7591/9781501748554