Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City - Paperback
by Jed Horne
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House TradeISBN-13:9780812976502ISBN-10:812976509UPC:9780812976502Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Disasters & Disaster ReliefBook Topic:State & Local, 21st CenturySize:8.00 x 5.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCF1RXQZFG
Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As an editor of New Orleans' daily newspaper, the Pulitzer Prize--winning Times-Picayune, Jed Horne has had a front-row seat to the unfolding drama of the city's collapse into chaos and its continuing...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House TradeISBN-13:9780812976502ISBN-10:812976509UPC:9780812976502Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Disasters & Disaster ReliefBook Topic:State & Local, 21st CenturySize:8.00 x 5.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCF1RXQZFG
Jed Horne, a metro editor of The Times-Picayune, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his part in the paper's coverage of Hurricane Katrina. His book Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans was nominated for the 2006 Edgar Award for nonfiction crime writing. He lives in the French Quarter with his wife.
Publisher: Random House Trade
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