LSU Press, Date: 2007-06-01. Hardcover. Good. HARDBACK - Ex-library book in mylar cover and minimal library markings. Pages clean and in good condition inside. Ships same or next business day via US Mail w/h Tracking. 2007. LSU Press ISBN 0807132845 9780807132845 [US]

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Louisiana State University Press, Date: 2007-06. Hardcover. Good. 2007. Louisiana State University Press ISBN 0807132845 9780807132845 [US]

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Hardback. New. Hurricane Katrina was a stunning example of complete civic breakdown. Beginning on August 29, 2005, the world watched in horror as- despite all the warnings and studies- every system that might have protected New Orleans failed. Levees and canals buckled, pouring more than 100 billion gallons of floodwater into the city. Botched communications crippled rescue operations. Buses that might have evacuated thousands never came. Hospitals lost power, and patients lay suffering in darkness and stifling heat. At least 1,400 Louisianans died in Hurricane Katrina, more than half of them from New Orleans, and hundreds of thousands more were displaced, many still wondering if they will ever be able to return. How could all of this have happened in twenty-first-century America? And could it all happen again? To answer these questions, the Center for Public Integrity commissioned seven seasoned journalists to travel to New Orleans and investigate the storm's aftermath. In City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Katrina, they present their findings. The stellar roster of contributors includes Pulitzer Prize-winner John McQuaid, whose earlier work predicted the failure of the levees and the impending disaster; longtime Boston Globe newsman Curtis Wilkie, a French Quarter resident for nearly fifteen years; and Katy Reckdahl, an award-winning freelance journalist who gave birth to her son in a New Orleans hospital the day before Katrina hit. They and the rest of ...

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, Date: 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. First printing. Inscribed by Sara Shipley Hiles [who wrote the section on "The Environment"] on the title page. Gilt lettering on blue cloth covered boards in a pictorial dust jacket. 8vo, 168pp. 2007. Louisiana State University Press ISBN 0807132845 9780807132845 [US]

LSU Press, Date: 2007-06-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2007. LSU Press ISBN 0807132845 9780807132845 [US]