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Katrina : after the flood

By: Material type: TextTextNew York: Simon & Schuster, ©2015Description: xvi, 462 pages 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781451692228
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.3492207963 22
Contents:
1.The Banker -- 2.Air Force One -- 3.Behind Enemy Lines -- 4.A First Burst of Optimism -- 5.The Shadow Government -- 6.Looking the Part -- 7.Cassandra -- 8.He Said, She Said -- 9.Rita -- 10.Brick by Brick -- 11.Blue Sky -- 12.Shrink the Footprint -- 13.Isle of Denial -- 14.Look and Leave -- 15.A Smaller, Taller City -- 16.Limbo -- 17.Chocolate City -- 18.The Mardi Gras Way of Life -- 19.Darkness Revealed -- 20.Road Home -- 21."You'll See Cranes in the Sky" -- 22.Eight Feet Across -- 23.Fatigue -- 24.Vanilla City -- 25.Blight -- 26.The Sore Winner -- 27.Return to Splendor -- 28."Get Over It".
Summary: Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana—on August 29, 2005—journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm’s immediate damage, the city of New Orleans’s efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm’s lasting effects not just on the city’s geography and infrastructure—but on the psychic, racial, and social fabric of one of this nation’s great cities.
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1.The Banker -- 2.Air Force One -- 3.Behind Enemy Lines -- 4.A First Burst of Optimism -- 5.The Shadow Government -- 6.Looking the Part -- 7.Cassandra -- 8.He Said, She Said -- 9.Rita -- 10.Brick by Brick -- 11.Blue Sky -- 12.Shrink the Footprint -- 13.Isle of Denial -- 14.Look and Leave -- 15.A Smaller, Taller City -- 16.Limbo -- 17.Chocolate City -- 18.The Mardi Gras Way of Life -- 19.Darkness Revealed -- 20.Road Home -- 21."You'll See Cranes in the Sky" -- 22.Eight Feet Across -- 23.Fatigue -- 24.Vanilla City -- 25.Blight -- 26.The Sore Winner -- 27.Return to Splendor -- 28."Get Over It".

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana—on August 29, 2005—journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm’s immediate damage, the city of New Orleans’s efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm’s lasting effects not just on the city’s geography and infrastructure—but on the psychic, racial, and social fabric of one of this nation’s great cities.

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