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Beyond Katrina

2015-08-01 Travel
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Release : 2015-08-01
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Book Synopsis Beyond Katrina by : Natasha Trethewey

Download or read book Beyond Katrina written by Natasha Trethewey. This book was released on 2015-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Katrina is poet Natasha Trethewey’s very personal profile of her natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Trethewey’s attempt to understand and document the damage to Gulfport started as a series of lectures at the University of Virginia that were subsequently published as essays in the Virginia Quarterly Review. For Beyond Katrina, Trethewey expanded this work into a narrative that incorporates personal letters, poems, and photographs, offering a moving meditation on the love she holds for her childhood home. In this new edition, Trethewey looks back on the ten years that have passed since Katrina in a new epilogue, outlining progress that has been made and the challenges that still exist.

Beyond Katrina

2012-06-01 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2012-06-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Beyond Katrina by : Natasha Trethewey

Download or read book Beyond Katrina written by Natasha Trethewey. This book was released on 2012-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays, poems, and letters, chronicling the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Deadly Indifference

2011-06-16 Political Science
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Release : 2011-06-16
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Deadly Indifference by : Michael D. Brown

Download or read book Deadly Indifference written by Michael D. Brown. This book was released on 2011-06-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, former Under Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Brown—infamously praised by President George W. Bush for doing a "heckuva job" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina—tells his side of the response to one of the greatest natural disasters to occur in the United States. Without making excuses for anyone, least of all the President of the United States or himself, Brown describes in detail what ultimately turned out to be the largest federal response to a natural disaster in U.S. history.

Overcoming Katrina

2009-02-15 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2009-02-15
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Book Synopsis Overcoming Katrina by : Keith C. Ferdinand

Download or read book Overcoming Katrina written by Keith C. Ferdinand. This book was released on 2009-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: stores, the Baptist churches, the community health clinics, and those streets where the aunties stood on the corner, and whose physical traces have now all been washed away. They conclude with visions of a safer, equitably rebuilt New Orleans." --Book Jacket.

Katrina

2020-06-16 History
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Release : 2020-06-16
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Katrina by : Andy Horowitz

Download or read book Katrina written by Andy Horowitz. This book was released on 2020-06-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of Katrina: an epic of citymaking, revealing how engineers and oil executives, politicians and musicians, and neighbors black and white built New Orleans, then watched it sink under the weight of their competing ambitions. Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster extend across the twentieth century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in 1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers could safely build housing away from the high ground near the Mississippi. And so New Orleans grew in lowlands that relied on significant government subsidies to stay dry. When the flawed levee system surrounding the city and its suburbs failed, these were the neighborhoods that were devastated. The homes that flooded belonged to Louisianans black and white, rich and poor. Katrina’s flood washed over the twentieth-century city. The flood line tells one important story about Katrina, but it is not the only story that matters. Andy Horowitz investigates the response to the flood, when policymakers reapportioned the challenges the water posed, making it easier for white New Orleanians to return home than it was for African Americans. And he explores how the profits and liabilities created by Louisiana’s oil industry have been distributed unevenly among the state’s citizens for a century, prompting both dreams of abundance—and a catastrophic land loss crisis that continues today. Laying bare the relationship between structural inequality and physical infrastructure—a relationship that has shaped all American cities—Katrina offers a chilling glimpse of the future disasters we are already creating.

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