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Material Type: | Audio book, etc. |
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Document Type: | Sound Recording |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Douglas Brinkley |
OCLC Number: | 70957184 |
Notes: | Originally published: New York : Morrow, ©2006. 1st ed. |
Description: | 1 audio disc : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in. |
Contents: | Ignoring the inevitable; August 27 (Saturday) -- Shouts and whispers; August 27 (Saturday) -- Storm vs. shoreline; August 28 (Sunday) -- The winds come to Louisiana; August 28-29 (Sunday-Monday) -- What was the Mississippi gulf coast; August 29 (Monday) -- The busted levee blues; August 29 (Monday) -- "I've been FEMA-ed"; August 29 (Monday) -- Water rising; August 30 (Tuesday) -- City without answers; August 30 (Tuesday) -- The smell of death; August 31 (Wednesday) -- Blindness; August 31 (Wednesday) -- The intense irrationality of a Thursday; September 1 (Thursday) -- "It's our time now"; September 1 (Thursday) -- The Friday shuffle and Saturday relief; September 2-3 (Friday-Saturday) -- Getaway (or X marks the spot); September 3 (Saturday) and beyond. |
Responsibility: | Douglas Brinkley. |
Abstract:
[This book] rips the story of Katrina apart and relates what the Category 3 hurricane was like from every point of view. The book finds the true heroes - such as Coast Guard officer Jimmy Duckworth and hurricane jock Tony Zumbado ... [It] lets the Katrina survivors tells their own stories [and] investigates the failure of government at every level.-Dust jacket.
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- Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
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- Disaster victims.
- Emergency management -- Government policy.
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