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Check out other translated books in french, spanish languages. Hurricane katrina, its 115 mph winds, and the accompanying storm surge it created as high as 27 feet along a. Gary rivlin is a pulitzer prizewinning investigative reporter and the author of five books, including katrina. Katrina book by gary rivlin official publisher page. Following hurricane katrina, fema updated its flood frequency analyses to include more. He lives in new york with his wife, theater director daisy walker, and two sons. Get also books,history,americas books in epub and mobi format. Ten years in the making, gary rivlins katrina is a gem of a bookwellreported. After the flood by gary rivlin request pdf researchgate. He is a twotime gerald loeb award winner and former reporter for the new york times. What went wrong in general terms, the challenges to our collective response to hurricane katrina are not difficult to identify. After the flood from the worlds largest community of readers.
Flooddepth category by census block for new orleans. Journalist gary rivlin seeks to answer this question in katrina. One of new york timess 100 notable books of the year, 2015 one. When i picked it up initially, i thought based on the description that it would be a factual account of the days, months, and years following the hurricane. After the flood is perhaps one of the best nonfiction books ive read in a long time.