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The great deluge, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Douglas Brinkley

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The great deluge, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Douglas Brinkley

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The great deluge

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Douglas Brinkley

Sub title

Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Summary

In 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

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