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

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

Douglas Brinkley

736 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced

Description

In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. Yet those wind-torn hours represented only the first stage of the relentless triple tragedy that Katrin...

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informative 85%
emotional 57%
challenging 42%
sad 42%
inspiring 28%
reflective 28%
dark 14%
tense 14%

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fast 16%

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