The Drowned
City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
Don Brown
GN B812d
Don Brown
GN B812d
On August
29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the
protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of
the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages
across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and
thirty-three people lost their lives. The riveting tale of this historic storm
and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism, and
courage—and also of incompetence, racism, and criminality.
Don Brown’s kinetic art and as-it-happens narrative capture both the tragedy and triumph of one of the worst natural disasters in American history. A portion of the proceeds from this book has been donated to Habitat for Humanity New Orleans.
(from publisher)
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