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Article: The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.(Book review)
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- November 1, 2006
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*** 1/2 The Great Deluge Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast By Douglas Brinkley
New Orleans historian recounts an event of biblical proportions.
The Great Deluge spans one of the most destructive weeks in American history--between August 27, 2005, the day before Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast, and September 3, when the people whose suffering had become the source of national shame were finally being evacuated from a flooded New Orleans. Th rough interviews with many of the victims, as well as those charged with providing comfort and restoring order to the area (the book focuses primarily on New Orleans, though it ...