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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 08/01/2007
ISBN: 9780061148491
Pages: 784
Weight: 1.99lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.32w x 1.58d
Award: Robert F. Kennedy Book Award - Winner

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 08/26/2007 pg. 24