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Article: Awash.(books, arts & manners)(The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast)(Book review)
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- July 17, 2006
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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, by Douglas Brinkley (William Morrow, 736 pp., $29.95)
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HAGIOGRAPHER to John Kerry and Jimmy Carter, contributor to Rolling Stone, editor to the late Hunter Thompson, buddy to Sean Penn: Douglas Brinkley is the nation's foremost liberal historian, one whose celebrity extends from academia to the rock world.
Do you want to buy a book from this man anyway? Maybe just this once: The Great Deluge is a mostly down-the-middle account of the week of Hurricane Katrina's assault on New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast. Even historians have beats, ...