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 88%
emotional 55%
sad 44%
challenging 33%
dark 22%
inspiring 22%
reflective 22%
tense 22%

Pace

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fast 12%

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