Drowned City
Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
Edición de la obra Drowned city
| Autor | Don Brown |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company |
| Fecha de publicación | 2017 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| ISBN-13 | 9781536416633 |
| Número de Cutter | B877d |
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three people lost their lives. The tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism, and courage -- and also of incompetence, racism, and criminality. Don Brown's kinetic art and as-it-happens narrative capture both the tragedy and triumph of one of the worst natural disasters in American history.