Breach of Faith Hurricane Katrina and the near Death of a Great American City

Name: Breach of Faith Hurricane Katrina and the near Death of a Great American City
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ISBN: 9781400065523

ISBN-10: 1400065526

ISBN-13: 9781400065523

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jed Horne

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Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As an editor of New Orleans ' daily newspaper, the Pulitzer Prize -- winning Times-Picayune, Jed Horne has had a front-row seat to the unfolding drama of the city ' s collapse into chaos and its continuing struggle to survive. As the Big One bore down, New Orleanians rich and poor, black and white, lurched from giddy revelry to mandatory evacuation. The thousands who couldn ' t or wouldn ' t leave initially congratulated themselves on once again riding out the storm. But then the unimaginable…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/11/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Maps	p. VIII
Introduction	p. XV
A Camille on Betsy's Track	p. 3
When Wallyworld Closes at Four	p. 22
An Imperfect Storm	p. 41
Real Ugly, Real Fast	p. 48
Decaf Cigarettes and Golden Carp	p. 73
Other Texans, Other Times	p. 83
Media in the Moment	p. 106
At Least Somebody Had a Plan	p. 120
Code Gray	p. 132
Like Bricks on Jell-O	p. 145
Help Yourself	p. 168
A Rockets Jersey and a Picture of Jesus	p. 187
Reversal of Fortune	p. 200
In Search of Common Ground	p. 218
If They Can Rebuild Beirut	p. 232
Crunch Time	p. 243
Sue the Bastards	p. 254
A Comparable Catastrophe	p. 275
Visions of a City Reborn	p. 288
Blue Tarps in a Chocolate City	p. 306
Shrink-Proof City	p. 315
Safe Enough for Cows	p. 327
Children with Bad Timing	p. 341
Failure Is Not an Option	p. 361
Summing Up	p. 374
Acknowledgments	p. 387
Interview List	p. 389
Notes	p. 391
Index	p. 401
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