Tevi Troy is the founding president of the American Health Policy Institute, a former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and a best-selling presidential historian. He is a frequent television and radio analyst, and has appeared on CNN, Fox News, Fox Business, CNBC, C-SPAN and The News Hour, among other outlets. On August 3, 2007, Dr. Troy was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As Deputy Secretary, Dr. Troy was the chief operating officer of the largest civilian department in the federal government, with a budget of $716 billion and over 67,000 employees. In that position, he oversaw all operations, including Medicare, Medicaid, public health, medical research, food and drug safety, and disaster preparedness. He served as the regulatory policy officer for HHS, overseeing the development and approval of all HHS regulations and significant guidance. In addition, he led a number of initiatives at HHS, including combating bio-terrorism and public health emergency preparedness. Dr. Troy has extensive White House experience, having served in several high-level positions over a five-year period, culminating in his service as Deputy Assistant and then Acting Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. At the White House, Dr. Troy also specialized in crisis management, creating intra-governmental consensus, and all aspects of policy development, including strategy, outreach and coalition building. Dr. Troy has held high-level positions on Capitol Hill as well. From 1998 to 2000, Dr. Troy served as the Policy Director for Senator John Ashcroft. From 1996 to 1998, Troy was Senior Domestic Policy Adviser and later Domestic Policy Director for the House Policy Committee, chaired by Christopher Cox. Before serving on Capitol Hill, Dr. Troy was a Researcher at the American Enterprise Institute. In addition to his senior level government work and health care expertise, Dr. Troy is also a presidential historian, making him one of only a handful of historians who has both studied the White House and worked there at the highest levels. His 2013 book, What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House (Regnery History), was a Washington Post bestseller. Dr. Troy is also the author of Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians? (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), and has written over 150 articles, for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Forbes, The New Republic, Commentary, Reason, Investor’s Business Daily, National Review, Washingtonian, The Weekly Standard, and other publications. Dr. Troy has a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and an M.A and Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Texas at Austin. He lives in Maryland with his wife Kami and four children.

The art of leadership emerges not during calm, but in crises-21st-century, premodern, episodic, multiple, sudden, simmering, solvable and existential-and never more so in the age of spreading nuclear weapons and instant communications. Tevi Troy's fascinating new survey of how presidents dealt with disasters and near disasters is both historical and didactic: what has made a president in the past keep calm and yet forceful during an unforeseen challenge-and what can those in government and the public in their daily lives learn about dealing with catastrophes from our successful and not so successful Commanders-in Chief? -- Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and author of the national bestsellers Carnage and Culture and A War Like No Other Shall We Wake the President? is an entertaining and informative tour of how presidents have responded to disasters, and what our country, including future presidents, should do when disaster strikes again. They should be prepared! Dr. Troy will convince you that farsighted preparation can make our nation stronger and our citizens safer. -- Tom Ridge, former Governor of Pennsylvania and first Secretary of Homeland Security I sure wish I'd had a copy of Tevi Troy's Shall We Wake the President? when I served in the White House. His emphasis on the importance of communications in successful disaster planning and response is spot on, and he taught me a great deal about how past presidents have taken on the challenge of disaster communications. -- Ari Fleischer, former White House Press Secretary Disasters, natural and otherwise, can dominate the actions of government leaders and shape dramatically the lives of a country's residents. Preparing for the worst is a high-priority for both. Using historical analysis and his own experiences from inside the Bush White House, Tevi Troy provides a useful guide for presidents and all Americans for every variety of disaster we have seen or might see. -- Norman Ornstein, co-author of It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism Drawing on history as well as his own years in government, Tevi Troy has brought us an excellent, cogent and sensible look at the looming national traumas that have become a crucial part of an American President's responsibility and of the complex experience of being an American in the 21st century. -- Michael Beschloss, Presidential Historian

Tevi Troy is the founding president of the American Health Policy Institute, a former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and a best-selling presidential historian. He is a frequent television and radio analyst, and has appeared on CNN, Fox News, Fox Business, CNBC, C-SPAN and The News Hour, among other outlets. On August 3, 2007, Dr. Troy was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As Deputy Secretary, Dr. Troy was the chief operating officer of the largest civilian department in the federal government, with a budget of $716 billion and over 67,000 employees. In that position, he oversaw all operations, including Medicare, Medicaid, public health, medical research, food and drug safety, and disaster preparedness. He served as the regulatory policy officer for HHS, overseeing the development and approval of all HHS regulations and significant guidance. In addition, he led a number of initiatives at HHS, including combating bio-terrorism and public health emergency preparedness. Dr. Troy has extensive White House experience, having served in several high-level positions over a five-year period, culminating in his service as Deputy Assistant and then Acting Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. At the White House, Dr. Troy also specialized in crisis management, creating intra-governmental consensus, and all aspects of policy development, including strategy, outreach and coalition building. Dr. Troy has held high-level positions on Capitol Hill as well. From 1998 to 2000, Dr. Troy served as the Policy Director for Senator John Ashcroft. From 1996 to 1998, Troy was Senior Domestic Policy Adviser and later Domestic Policy Director for the House Policy Committee, chaired by Christopher Cox. Before serving on Capitol Hill, Dr. Troy was a Researcher at the American Enterprise Institute. In addition to his senior level government work and health care expertise, Dr. Troy is also a presidential historian, making him one of only a handful of historians who has both studied the White House and worked there at the highest levels. His 2013 book, What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House (Regnery History), was a Washington Post bestseller. Dr. Troy is also the author of Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians? (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), and has written over 150 articles, for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Forbes, The New Republic, Commentary, Reason, Investor’s Business Daily, National Review, Washingtonian, The Weekly Standard, and other publications. Dr. Troy has a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and an M.A and Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Texas at Austin. He lives in Maryland with his wife Kami and four children.

The art of leadership emerges not during calm, but in crises-21st-century, premodern, episodic, multiple, sudden, simmering, solvable and existential-and never more so in the age of spreading nuclear weapons and instant communications. Tevi Troy's fascinating new survey of how presidents dealt with disasters and near disasters is both historical and didactic: what has made a president in the past keep calm and yet forceful during an unforeseen challenge-and what can those in government and the public in their daily lives learn about dealing with catastrophes from our successful and not so successful Commanders-in Chief? -- Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and author of the national bestsellers Carnage and Culture and A War Like No Other Shall We Wake the President? is an entertaining and informative tour of how presidents have responded to disasters, and what our country, including future presidents, should do when disaster strikes again. They should be prepared! Dr. Troy will convince you that farsighted preparation can make our nation stronger and our citizens safer. -- Tom Ridge, former Governor of Pennsylvania and first Secretary of Homeland Security I sure wish I'd had a copy of Tevi Troy's Shall We Wake the President? when I served in the White House. His emphasis on the importance of communications in successful disaster planning and response is spot on, and he taught me a great deal about how past presidents have taken on the challenge of disaster communications. -- Ari Fleischer, former White House Press Secretary Disasters, natural and otherwise, can dominate the actions of government leaders and shape dramatically the lives of a country's residents. Preparing for the worst is a high-priority for both. Using historical analysis and his own experiences from inside the Bush White House, Tevi Troy provides a useful guide for presidents and all Americans for every variety of disaster we have seen or might see. -- Norman Ornstein, co-author of It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism Drawing on history as well as his own years in government, Tevi Troy has brought us an excellent, cogent and sensible look at the looming national traumas that have become a crucial part of an American President's responsibility and of the complex experience of being an American in the 21st century. -- Michael Beschloss, Presidential Historian

Tevi Troy is the founding president of the American Health Policy Institute, a former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and a best-selling presidential historian. He is a frequent television and radio analyst, and has appeared on CNN, Fox News, Fox Business, CNBC, C-SPAN and The News Hour, among other outlets. On August 3, 2007, Dr. Troy was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As Deputy Secretary, Dr. Troy was the chief operating officer of the largest civilian department in the federal government, with a budget of $716 billion and over 67,000 employees. In that position, he oversaw all operations, including Medicare, Medicaid, public health, medical research, food and drug safety, and disaster preparedness. He served as the regulatory policy officer for HHS, overseeing the development and approval of all HHS regulations and significant guidance. In addition, he led a number of initiatives at HHS, including combating bio-terrorism and public health emergency preparedness. Dr. Troy has extensive White House experience, having served in several high-level positions over a five-year period, culminating in his service as Deputy Assistant and then Acting Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. At the White House, Dr. Troy also specialized in crisis management, creating intra-governmental consensus, and all aspects of policy development, including strategy, outreach and coalition building. Dr. Troy has held high-level positions on Capitol Hill as well. From 1998 to 2000, Dr. Troy served as the Policy Director for Senator John Ashcroft. From 1996 to 1998, Troy was Senior Domestic Policy Adviser and later Domestic Policy Director for the House Policy Committee, chaired by Christopher Cox. Before serving on Capitol Hill, Dr. Troy was a Researcher at the American Enterprise Institute. In addition to his senior level government work and health care expertise, Dr. Troy is also a presidential historian, making him one of only a handful of historians who has both studied the White House and worked there at the highest levels. His 2013 book, What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House (Regnery History), was a Washington Post bestseller. Dr. Troy is also the author of Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians? (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), and has written over 150 articles, for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Forbes, The New Republic, Commentary, Reason, Investor’s Business Daily, National Review, Washingtonian, The Weekly Standard, and other publications. Dr. Troy has a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and an M.A and Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Texas at Austin. He lives in Maryland with his wife Kami and four children.

The art of leadership emerges not during calm, but in crises-21st-century, premodern, episodic, multiple, sudden, simmering, solvable and existential-and never more so in the age of spreading nuclear weapons and instant communications. Tevi Troy's fascinating new survey of how presidents dealt with disasters and near disasters is both historical and didactic: what has made a president in the past keep calm and yet forceful during an unforeseen challenge-and what can those in government and the public in their daily lives learn about dealing with catastrophes from our successful and not so successful Commanders-in Chief? -- Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and author of the national bestsellers Carnage and Culture and A War Like No Other Shall We Wake the President? is an entertaining and informative tour of how presidents have responded to disasters, and what our country, including future presidents, should do when disaster strikes again. They should be prepared! Dr. Troy will convince you that farsighted preparation can make our nation stronger and our citizens safer. -- Tom Ridge, former Governor of Pennsylvania and first Secretary of Homeland Security I sure wish I'd had a copy of Tevi Troy's Shall We Wake the President? when I served in the White House. His emphasis on the importance of communications in successful disaster planning and response is spot on, and he taught me a great deal about how past presidents have taken on the challenge of disaster communications. -- Ari Fleischer, former White House Press Secretary Disasters, natural and otherwise, can dominate the actions of government leaders and shape dramatically the lives of a country's residents. Preparing for the worst is a high-priority for both. Using historical analysis and his own experiences from inside the Bush White House, Tevi Troy provides a useful guide for presidents and all Americans for every variety of disaster we have seen or might see. -- Norman Ornstein, co-author of It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism Drawing on history as well as his own years in government, Tevi Troy has brought us an excellent, cogent and sensible look at the looming national traumas that have become a crucial part of an American President's responsibility and of the complex experience of being an American in the 21st century. -- Michael Beschloss, Presidential Historian