The Book Prize Index

The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster

Jonathan M. Katz

An assessment of how Haiti has fared after the 2010 earthquake reveals how the country continues to suffer from poverty, illness, and a broken infrastructure, assessing the factors that prevent aid from reaching people in need.

Journalism & ReportageJournalism & Reportage · medium confidenceJournalism & Reportage81 signalsLlm Classifier: Journalism & Reportage -> Journalism & ReportageTopic Classifier: Climate, Weather & Disaster -> Nature & EnvironmentKeyword Classifier: Technology -> TechnologyClimate, Weather & DisasterTechnology, Computing & AIClass, Poverty & InequalityInfrastructure, Engineering & Built Environment

Award History

0 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction2015FinalistSecondary source
J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize2014FinalistSecondary source
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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 44%.