The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters [Hardcover]

An indispensable guide to dealing with disasters from one of todays foremost thinkers in crisis management

In a world marred by preventable miscalculation, Juliette KayyemsThe Devil Never Sleepsprovides a playbook for making it out alive. The New Yorker

The future may be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of consistent catastrophe, where things more often go wrong than right. So why do we still fumble when crisis strikes?

InThe Devil Never Sleeps, Juliette Kayyem outlines a radical new way to prepare for disasters. Traditional principles of crisis management, focused on preventing disasters, are no longer viable. We need a forward-thinking approach that allows us to respond, recover, and build more resilience when crisis occurs. Drawing on her experience in national security and assessing real-life examplesfrom natural disasters like the California wildfires to human-made ones like airplane collisionsKayyem identifies common lessons that can be implemented now to limit harm in the future.The Devil Never Sleepsis an essential guide for developing strategies that actually work in the face of perpetual catastrophe.

Juliette Kayyemis the faculty chair of the Homeland Security Project at Harvards Kennedy School of Government. She has spent over twenty years organizing responses to major crises in state and federal government and the private sector. A Pulitzer Prize finalist, she is CNNs senior national security analyst and a regular contributor toThe Atlanticmagazine.