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Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans

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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina’s monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protecting levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the town flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages around the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three other folks lost their lives. The riveting tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one in every of selflessness, heroism, and courage—and in addition of incompetence, racism, and criminality.
        Don Brown’s kinetic art and as-it-happens narrative capture both the tragedy and triumph of some of the worst natural failures in American history. A section of the proceeds from this book has been donated to Habitat for Humanity New Orleans.


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