{"product_id":"katrina-a-history-1915-2015-9780674271074","title":"Katrina: A History, 1915-2015","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Bancroft Prize\u003cbr\u003eLouisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The main thrust of Horowitz's account is to make us understand Katrina--the civic calamity, not the storm itself--as a consequence of decades of bad decisions by humans, not an unanticipated caprice of nature.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Nicholas Lemann, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Masterful...Disasters have the power to reveal who we are, what we value, what we're willing--and unwilling--to protect.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Eric Klinenberg, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If you want to read only one book to better understand why people in positions of power in government and industry do so little to address climate change, even with wildfires burning and ice caps melting and extinctions becoming a daily occurrence, this is the one.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Scott W. Stern, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster can be traced back almost a full century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in 1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers could safely build housing away from the high ground near the Mississippi, on lowlands that relied on significant government subsidies to stay dry. When the flawed levee system failed, these were the neighborhoods that were devastated. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe flood line tells one important story about Katrina, but it is not the only story that matters. Andy Horowitz investigates the response to the flood, when policymakers made it easier for white New Orleanians to return home than for African Americans. And he explores how the profits and liabilities created by Louisiana's oil industry have been distributed unevenly, prompting dreams of abundance--and a catastrophic land loss crisis that continues today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674271074\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296","brand":"Andy Horowitz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41839858450613,"sku":"9780674271074","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_666a1c72-ad61-4ac3-a458-65ad74031cbb.jpg?v=1646730926","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/katrina-a-history-1915-2015-9780674271074","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}