The Great Deluge

Overview

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.

Details

Publisher

Harper Collins

Published

2009-10-13

Pages

768

Language

EN

Categories

History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), Nature / Weather, History / United States / 21st Century, History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), History / World, History / United States / 20th Century, History / Social History, Social Science / Disasters & Disaster Relief, Science / Natural History, Social Science / Anthropology / General

ISBN-13

9780061744730