The history of presidential dealings with disasters shows that
whatever their ideology, presidents need to be prepared to deal
with unexpected crises. In recent years, the expectations have
grown as the disasters seem to appear to be coming more frequently.
Since 2001, numerous unpredictable crises, including terror
attacks, massive storms, and an economic collapse, have shaken
Americans to their core. It seems as if technology, for all of its
beneficences, also provides mankind with increasingly powerful ways
to wreak destruction, including nuclear explosions, bioterror
attacks, and cyber-attacks. In addition, instantaneous and
incessant communications technologies send us word of disasters
taking place anywhere in the nation far more rapidly, giving
disasters an immediacy that some may have lacked in the past. In
21st century America, the eyes of the American people look to the
president to lead the response to whatever disasters happen to
strike. President Obama and his team learned this and were taken
aback by the sheer number of crises that a president needed to deal
with, including swine flu, BP's Macondo oil spill, and the Somali
pirates who attacked an American ship. Many of these did not quite
reach disaster status, but Obama's reaction to the constant stream
of crises was both revealing and unnerving: "Who thought we were
going to have to deal with pirates?" In Shall We Wake the
President?, Tevi Troy, a presidential historian and former senior
White House aide and deputy secretary of the Department of Health
& Human Services, looks at the evolving role of the president
in dealing with disasters, and looks at how our presidents have
handled disasters throughout our history. He also looks at the
likelihood of similar disasters befalling modern America, and
details how smart policies today can help us avoid future crises,
or can best react to them should they occur. In addition, he
provides information on what individuals can do to prepare for
disasters. This book includes sections on how American presidents
have dealt with a variety of disasters, including health crises,
terror attacks, economic upheaval, bioterror and cyber-attacks,
natural disasters, and civil breakdown. In doing so, Shall We Wake
the President? will provide lessons from presidents of the past
that will inform policy strategies for presidents of the future.
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