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Katrina: A History, 1915-2015

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Winner of the Bancroft Prize
A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of the Year


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 weathere...