About this title: A New Orleans resident and history professor at Tulane University, Brinkley rips the story of Hurricane Katrina apart and exposes the failures, ulterior motives, and inexperience that allowed the Katrina disaster to devastate the Gulf Coast. 16-page color insert.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Date Published: 05/2006
ISBN-13:9780061124235ISBN:0061124230
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow
Date Published: 2006-05-01
ISBN-13:9780061124235ISBN:0061124230
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Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. (A92_5/9)Book is in good condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 768 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Text unmarked. Spine uncreased. Corner wear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 768 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow
Date Published: 2006-05-01
ISBN-13:9780061124235ISBN:0061124230
Description: New. The Great Deluge: New Hardcover with Dust Jacket, binding tight, pages clean and straight, no writing anywhere, NO remainder mark, First Edition/ First Printing, full number line. read more
"Overall, it's a good book and well worth the read. I actually found myself disappointed with how suddenly it ended, which is a good sign.
The good: exhaustive personal stories, a great timeline as an appendix
The bad: the editor needs a stern talking-to. There were typos galore. And the author needs to quit the awkward pop culture references that he peppered the book with. While much of the book is cited and sourced very well, sometimes the author would make completely unfounded assumptions about people's motivations or mental states without any evidence whatsoever, particularly when it came to Mayor Nagin (don't get me wrong, I think Nagin is a world-class jackass). There's was plenty to hit Nagin without making things up."
"This is an outstanding book about one of the major atrocities in US history. There is no finger pointing, nor is there any political leaning. It reads like a story out of Time- except it is 646 pages. It is the story of Katrina from 3 days before the storm until many weeks after. It is a perspective from many people and politicians. Famous and not-so-famous people. It is a sadness that is most profound as the reader gets thru it, knowing how we, as a nation, turned our backs on our own! This is not a book one can easily forget. Please God that we never forget what we did to these people of New Orleans and Louisiana. I found that I had to read this in small sections, in that it made such a profound and depressive impact on me. NOT an easy book to read. There are way too many questions in the minds of reasonable readers as to the whys of this atrocity!"
"I had known that FEMA and Homeland Security and the Bush Administration in general had really done a poor job responding to Katrina, but I had no idea just how bad it was until I read Brinkley's book. It wasn't just the response to Katrina, it was everything leading up to it as well.
To be fair, it wasn't just the Feds that weren't prepared. The City of New Orleans, and all it's divisions (especially NOPD) and the State of Lousiana, were woefully unprepared and non-chalant about the days leading up to Katrina. It would never be possible to evacuate everyone out of the bowl that is New Orleans, but they could have done a far better job. The idea that Amtrack moved it's trains out of New Orleans with numerous empty streets after offering them to Mayor Nagin just infuriates me.
Brinkley calls everyone to task for the foibles before and after Katrina. No one is spared, nor should anyone be in this kind of disaster. He also gives credit where credit is due, even in small measure, to folks and groups that have been roundly criticized in the media.
This is a brutal but readable portrait of such a disaster and catastrophe. Well researched and interviewed. I'm disgusted by what the City plunged into in the days following, and I'm horrified by the lack of basic planning and response by all levels of government. This is a must read for anyone curious about what happened before, during and after Katrina, and is an in your face cautionary tale about the dangers of bureaucracy. Any bureaucrat tasked with planning for or responding to a disaster should read this book."
"The lack of any maps was puzzling for a book this detailed. I finally printed some of the internet, which helped, but was not perfect.
I hope that anyone assigned or working in disaster planning/emergency preparedness reads this. The lessons to be learned are many, as are the consequences for not properly planning. The poor decisions made by those in charge as well as the conditions of those who stayed in the path of the Katrina were all horrific. I remember watching news coverage at the time and wondering if our Federal gov't somehow got a completely different version of national and cable news coverage from the rest of us. There is just not any good excuse for what happened except poor, inept judgement and decision making in a time of crisis.
This book definately immerses the reader in the week that Katrina struck and it was a bit of a relief to be finished with it, to be able to put the book down and put Katrina in the past. Now I need to look at what plans I might need to make in case of a disaster."
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