Vortex: Book Launch Event

The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War and Liberation. It’s a timely book that tells the story of how a storm that killed half a million people in 1970 is an omen for the worst case scenarios of our collective climate change nightmare.

Carney and Miklian tell this incredible true story through the eyes of a soccer star turned soldier, a Miami weatherman, a drunken and genocidal President, a Boston teacher turned aid worker and a student turned revolutionary who all played crucial roles in Bangladesh’s birth. Drawing upon more than 1,000 sources and interviews compiled over five years, The Vortex shows why every new megastorm is a roll of the dice that can obliterate existing political order and rip societies into conflict.

Panelists:

Scott Carney, author, The Vortex Jason Miklian, author, The Vortex Marcus King, John O. Rankin Associate Professor of International Affairs; Director, M.A. Program in International Affairs, George Washington University Deepa Ollapally, Research Professor of International Affairs; Associate Director, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University; Maryam Z. Deloffre, Associate Professor of International Affairs and Director, HAI.