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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Paperback)$17.95
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DescriptionIn the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. But it was only the first stage of a shocking triple tragedy. On the heels of one of the three strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the United States came the storm-surge flooding, which submerged a half-million homes—followed by the human tragedy of government mismanagement, which proved as cruel as the natural disaster itself. In The Great Deluge, bestselling author Douglas Brinkley finds the true heroes of this unparalleled catastrophe, and lets the survivors tell their own stories, masterly allowing them to record the nightmare that was Katrina. About the AuthorDouglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. His most recent books are The Quiet World, The Wilderness Warrior, and The Great Deluge. Six of his books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. He lives in Texas. Praise for The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast…“‘The Great Deluge,’ captures the human toll of Katrina as graphically as the most vivid newspaper and television accounts” |
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