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The storms that change a nation aren't always the ones we see coming. Sometimes, they arrive in the form of a man. When David Richardson walked into FEMA headquarters in May 2025, he carried the grit of a Marine Corps officer, the confidence of a battlefield commander, and a warning that would echo through the agency: ""Don't get in my way... I will run right over you."" What followed was one of the most turbulent and controversial chapters in modern American emergency management. This book pulls you inside the whirlwind-into the high-stakes decisions, the clashes behind closed doors, and the human cost of a leadership style built for war colliding with the slow, tangled realities of federal disaster response. From the catastrophic Central Texas floods that claimed over 130 lives, to viral public blunders, congressional battles, and internal chaos, Richardson's six-month tenure became a national conversation about power, preparedness, and the fragile systems meant to protect us when everything goes wrong. Run Over You is more than a portrait of a rise and fall. It's a gripping human story about pressure, ambition, and the limits of command. It exposes the hidden tensions inside FEMA, the political forces shaping America's disaster response, and the real people-victims, responders, insiders-whose lives were caught in the crossfire. Readers who care about leadership, crisis management, accountability, and the future of public service will find this book impossible to put down. It challenges what we think we know about who should lead in moments of national emergency-and what happens when the wrong storm hits at the wrong time. If you want to understand the machinery of American disaster response, the personalities who shape it, and the consequences when leadership falters, this book will take you there-up close, unfiltered, and unforgettable. Turn the page, step into the storm, and discover the story behind the man who shook FEMA to its core.

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