SOLD OUT - Janet Napolitano with Joe Biden: How Safe Are We?

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An insider's view on the state of homeland security since 9/11 from two public servants who have managed it at the federal government’s highest levels.

In the years since September 11, 2001, the U.S. has changed in fundamental ways: how we protect our borders, how we ward off foreign and domestic attacks within those borders, how we travel, how we respond to natural disasters and climate change, and, ultimately, how we conduct our politics. Janet Napolitano, the third secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and the first appointed by President Obama, says that “it’s time to take stock of those changes, to identify which policies…still work and which ones need to be fixed.” She asks in her new book How Safe Are We? Homeland Security since 9/11, “Where are our biggest vulnerabilities today, and how do we repair them? What are the risks we must accept if we are to remain a free and open society?”

Napolitano, who also served as Arizona’s Attorney General and its governor, will make the assessment with Vice President Joe Biden, the 47th Vice President of the United States, who sat alongside Napolitano and President Barack Obama through countless national security meetings in the White House and who, as a member of the U.S. Senate, chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and sat on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security. “Homeland security is not only the job of the secretary or of the 240,000 professionals who work for the department,” says Napolitano, “it is everyone’s responsibility.” If Americans work together to restore this common purpose, remain vigilant and refuse to live in fear, we can build a safe, secure, and resilient way of life for all.

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