It Takes a Nation: How Strangers Became Family in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina

It Takes a Nation tells the extraordinary story of how thousands of Americans came together to provide shelter, sustenance, and hope to the survivors of Hurricane Katrina through MoveOn.org’s Hurricane Housing website. Volunteers brought aid to evacuees by providing much needed housing, cars, jobs, clothes, health care, and most importantly, community and offering a positive contrast to the national shame that was widely felt about the Bush administration’s handling of the Katrina crisis. It Takes a Nation presents candid, first-person accounts and portraits that are a moving testament to the power of everyday people to make miracles happen.