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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Name: The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Brand: Harper Perennial
SKU: 9780061148491
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Contributors:

Douglas Brinkley

Publisher:

Harper Perennial

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Nature

Book Subcategory:

United States, Natural Disasters

Book Topic:

State & Local, 21st Century

Award:

2007 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Winner - Grand Prize Award

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Release Date:

2007-08-01

ISBN 13:

9780061148491

Weight:

1.99 lbs

Size:

8.94 x 6.32 x 1.58 inches

Pages:

784

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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.

About the Author
Brinkley, Douglas: -

Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, presidential historian for the New-York Historical Society, trustee of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. The Chicago Tribune dubbed him "America's New Past Master." He is the recipient of such distinguished environmental leadership prizes as the Frances K. Hutchison Medal (Garden Club of America), the Robin W. Winks Award for Enhancing Public Understanding of National Parks (National Parks Conservation Association), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Lifetime Heritage Award. His book The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He was awarded a Grammy for Presidential Suite and is the recipient of seven honorary doctorates in American studies. His two-volume, annotated Nixon Tapes won the Arthur S. Link-Warren F. Kuehl Prize. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and three children.

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