The Great Deluge
Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
By Douglas Brinkley
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780061148491, 768pp.)
Publication Date: August 2007
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover
Categories: Natural Disasters, United States - 21st Century, United States - State & Local - South
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In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. But it was only the first stage of a shocking triple tragedy. On the heels of one of the three strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the United States came the storm-surge flooding, which submerged a half-million homes—followed by the human tragedy of government mismanagement, which proved as cruel as the natural disaster itself.
In The Great Deluge, bestselling author Douglas Brinkley finds the true heroes of this unparalleled catastrophe, and lets the survivors tell their own stories, masterly allowing them to record the nightmare that was Katrina.
Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University and contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Seven of his books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. He lives in Texas with his wife and three children.
“An important, poignant and often-infuriating look at the tragedy.”
-Denver Post
“‘The Great Deluge,’ captures the human toll of Katrina as graphically as the most vivid newspaper and television accounts”
-New York Times Book Review
“…likely to be the [account] against which other treatments of the subject will be judged.”
-Washington Times
“…likely to be the [account] against which other treatments of the subject will be judged.”
-Daily Advertiser
“An impassioned argument for sustained national interest in the aftermath of a catastrophe.”
-The Advocate
“More dispassionate and analytical books will be written about Katrina, few will capture the human drama as well as Brinkley’s.”
-Financial Times
“You can call “The Great Deluge” history, or you can call it journalism. But it’s good stuff”
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“If you’ve grown numb to the horror of Katrina, this will wake you up. It’s a stirring and important book.”
-The Arizona Republic
“The first historical book that has researched the available record on Katrina and is the closest to actual fact.”
-Gov. Kathleen Blanco
“Doug Brinkley’s chronicle of Hurricane Katrina has a keen sense of history and context”
-Graydon Carter
“[A] riveting story”
-Cokie Roberts
“Written with verve and energy, this is Brinkley’s best book to date.”
-Times Picayune
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