American crisis /
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Crown. [2020]Edition: First editionDescription: 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593239261
- 0593239261
- 614.5/9241409747 23
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Standard Loan | Hayden Library Adult Nonfiction | Hayden Library | Book | 614.59/CUOMO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610022851401 |
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Governor Andrew Cuomo tells the riveting story of how he took charge in the fight against COVID-19 as New York became the epicenter of the pandemic, offering hard-won lessons in leadership and his vision for the path forward.
"An impressive road map to dealing with a crisis as serious as any we have faced."- The Washington Post
When COVID-19 besieged the United States, New York State emerged as the global "ground zero" for a deadly contagion that threatened the lives and livelihoods of millions. Quickly, Governor Andrew Cuomo provided the leadership to address the threat, becoming the standard-bearer of the organized response the country desperately needed. With infection rates spiking and more people dying every day, the systems and functions necessary to combat the pandemic in New York-and America-did not exist. So Cuomo undertook the impossible. He unified people to rise to the challenge and was relentless in his pursuit of scientific facts and data. He quelled fear while implementing an extraordinary plan for flattening the curve of infection. He and his team worked day and night to protect the people of New York, despite roadblocks presented by a president incapable of leadership and addicted to transactional politics.
Taking readers beyond the candid daily briefings that became must-see TV across the globe, and providing a dramatic, day-by-day account of the catastrophe as it unfolded, American Crisis presents the intimate and inspiring thoughts of a leader at an unprecedented historical moment. In his own voice, Andrew Cuomo chronicles the ingenuity and sacrifice required of so many to fight the pandemic, sharing the decision-making that shaped his policy as well as his frank accounting and assessment of his interactions with the federal government, the White House, and other state and local political and health officials. Real leadership, he shows, requires clear communication, compassion for others, and a commitment to truth-telling-no matter how frightening the facts may be.
Including a game plan for what we as individuals-and as a nation-need to do to protect ourselves against this disaster and those to come, American Crisis is a remarkable portrait of selfless leadership and a gritty story of difficult choices that points the way to a safer future for all of us.
"Leadership lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic" -- Cover.
"Governor Andrew Cuomo tells the riveting story of how he took charge in the fight against COVID-19 as New York became the epicenter of the pandemic, offering hard-won lessons in leadership and his vision for the path forward."-- Publisher's description.
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Kirkus Book Review
The governor of New York recounts his battle against the pandemic--and, at every step, the Trump administration. "The COVID virus is not the extent of our problem," writes Cuomo. "COVID merely exposed underlying weaknesses." While describing how he and his colleagues fought the virus and mountains of misguided information from the White House, the author inserts points of progressive doctrine ("State governments must reinvent the public health capacity") and anecdotal memories of his father, also a renowned governor of New Deal leanings. Not term-limited and already in his 10th year on the job, Cuomo writes, "I intend to serve as governor of New York as long as the people will have me." He has emerged from the pandemic as one of the few leaders who guided his state through the storm, if at great cost, while his bugaboo, Trump, emerges as inept throughout: He's a marketing man and a cockroachlike survivor, Cuomo suggests, but not who you want to deal with a crisis that involves trusting science, data, and the government. Though structured as a diary of the plague, beginning with a "patient zero" who brought the virus not from China but Europe and extending to the near present, Cuomo's book is really an extended assertion, unabashedly liberal, that government has a duty to act in the public good, as well as a set of prescriptions for making government better when it cannot or will not do so--as, Cuomo alleges, the Trump administration did when it threw its hands up to "abandon its basic role of managing a federal emergency." That failure, though, allowed Cuomo to pivot as needed, and, as he observes, New York's economy is now three-quarters open and the infection rate has been far lower than most other places after the initial onslaught. An engaging, maddening record of how to--and not to--manage a crisis. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Andrew Cuomo is the 56th Governor of New York, serving since 2011. He is the author of All Things Possible- Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life and Crossroads- The Future of American Politics .There are no comments on this title.