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

The Great Deluge
Author(s): Douglas Brinkley

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.

Review(s):
“‘The Great Deluge,’ captures the human toll of Katrina as graphically as the most vivid newspaper and television accounts”
“Doug Brinkley’s chronicle of Hurricane Katrina has a keen sense of history and context”
“[A] riveting story”
“The first historical book that has researched the available record on Katrina and is the closest to actual fact.”
“More dispassionate and analytical books will be written about Katrina, few will capture the human drama as well as Brinkley’s.”
“An important, poignant and often-infuriating look at the tragedy.”
“Written with verve and energy, this is Brinkley’s best book to date.”
“…likely to be the [account] against which other treatments of the subject will be judged.”
“An impassioned argument for sustained national interest in the aftermath of a catastrophe.”
“…likely to be the [account] against which other treatments of the subject will be judged.”



ISBN:  9780061148491