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2015

Format:	Book
Title:	Katrina : after the flood / Gary Rivlin.
Author:	Rivlin, Gary, author.

Call Number:	976.335 Riv

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Publisher, Date:	New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Summary:	"Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana--on August 29, 2005--journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm's immediate damage, the city of New Orleans's efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm's lasting affects not just on the city's geography and infrastructure, but on the psychic, racial, and social fabric of [the city]"--Amazon.com.
Physical Description:	xvi, 462 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Subjects:	Hurricane Katrina (2005) 2005 Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans. Social aspects. Social conditions. New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions. Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Other Title:	After the Flood
Contents:	Water rising -- The banker -- Air Force One -- Behind enemy lines -- A first burst of optimism -- The shadow government -- Looking the part -- Cassandra -- He said, she said -- Rita -- Brick by brick -- Blue sky -- Shrink the footprint --- Isle of denial -- Look and leave -- A smaller, taller city -- Limbo -- Chocolate city -- The Mardi Gras way of life -- Darkness revealed -- Road home -- "You'll see cranes in the sky" -- Eight feet across -- Fatigue -- Vanilla city -- Blight -- The sore winner -- Return to splendor -- "Get over it".
ISBN:	9781451692228 1451692226
Edition:	First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-433) and index.

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