The Boston Marathon bombing: how the city coped with its deadly terror attack

In an extract from her new book The Resilience Dividend, Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, investigates how Boston prepared for - and ultimately gained new strength from - the 2013 marathon bombing The city of Boston proved it had developed an exceptional state of readiness for a citywide disruption when, on the afternoon of 15 April, 2013 - Marathon Monday, as it's known there - two improvised explosive devices detonated on Boylston Street. Although the attack was unanticip...