Katrina: A History, 1915-2015 (Horowitz Andy)(Paperback)

Winner of the Bancroft Prize
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year "The main thrust of Horowitz's account is to make us understand Katrina--the civic calamity, not the storm itself--as a consequence of decades of bad decisions by humans, not an unanticipated caprice of nature."
--Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker "Masterful...Disasters have the power to reveal who we are, what we value, what we're willing--and unwilling--to protect."
--Eric Klinenberg, New York Review of Books "If you want to read only one book to better understand why people in positions of power in government and industry do so little to address climate change, even with wildfires burning and ice caps melting and extinctions becoming a daily occurrence, this is the one."
--Scott W. Stern, Los Angeles Review of
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