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“‘The Great Deluge,’ captures the human toll of Katrina as graphically as the most vivid newspaper and television accounts” (New York Times Book Review)“Doug Brinkley’s chronicle of Hurricane Katrina has a keen sense of history and context” (Graydon Carter)“[A] riveting story” (Cokie Roberts)“The first historical book that has researched the available record on Katrina and is the closest to actual fact.” (Gov. Kathleen Blanco)“More dispassionate and analytical books will be written about Katrina, few will capture the human drama as well as Brinkley’s.” (Financial Times)“An important, poignant and often-infuriating look at the tragedy.” (Denver Post)“Written with verve and energy, this is Brinkley’s best book to date.” (Times Picayune)“…likely to be the [account] against which other treatments of the subject will be judged.” (Washington Times)“An impassioned argument for sustained national interest in the aftermath of a catastrophe.” (The Advocate)“…likely to be the [account] against which other treatments of the subject will be judged.” (Daily Advertiser)

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About the Author

Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, a CNN Presidential Historian, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.  In the world of public history, he serves on boards, at museums, at colleges, and for historical societies. The Chicago Tribune dubbed him “America’s New Past Master.” The New-York Historical Society has chosen Brinkley as its official U.S. Presidential Historian. His recent book Cronkite won the Sperber Prize, while The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He was awarded a Grammy for Presidential Suite and is the recipient of seven honorary doctorates in American studies. His two-volume, annotated Nixon Tapes recently won the Arthur S. Link–Warren F. Kuehl Prize. He is a member of the Century Association, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and three children.  www.douglasbrinkley.com

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Product details

Paperback: 768 pages

Publisher: Harper Perennial; First Edition edition (July 31, 2007)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0061148490

ISBN-13: 978-0061148491

Product Dimensions:

6 x 1.6 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.3 out of 5 stars

187 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#532,973 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

The Great Deluge is an absolute tour de-force on one of the most shameful episodes in modern American history. I was reluctant to buy the book worried that (having been written by a history professor) it might not have the narrative flow to bring the various events and stories to life. I need not have worried, as Brinkley's writing style would do justice to Erik Larson and, on occasions, reminded me of Larson's own Isaac's Storm. This book should be required reading in our schools and in State and local government. It speaks to the power of Mother Nature, the incompetence of the administration in Washington DC (especially, Chertof at Homeland Security and Michael Brown at FEMA) and Mayor Nagin in New Orleans. It also tells the heroic stories of courage and survival by ordinary citizens, both from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast - and of those who came to the region to lend their help. Peter Smith

I'm a survivor of the hell of the Dome and I wrote "Left to Die-A first-hand account of life in the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina." After seven years of nightmares, I'm finally able to read accounts of the events without becoming an emotional wreck. It was with enthusiasm that I read "The Great Deluge."I was surprised to find for the most part an accurate rendering of the facts. It did gloss over some events but that is expected due to formatting restraints.I liked the fact that it chronicled the whole Gulf Coast and not just New Orleans. The way the author explains each vignette is great for the reader unfamiliar with New Orleans, its politics or quirky ways. The main players were people I knew and Mr. Brinkley accurately portrays them.You hardly ever hear about the people with a plan. And it is rarer if they use it. The coastal smaller parishes got it and prepared for the Big One. Likewise heroes are seldom acknowledged. Big or small the writer took time to point out some of these unsung champions.The book is well written but does ramble at times. The author flip-flops back and forth on the timeline. The photos were good but were poorly placed. Still it is a book worth reading.I agree with Bishop Paul Morton... Nagin is "A white man in black skin." His aspirations were to rise up the political ladder. When he told Bush we were all evacuated, he left us to die. I'm surprised he was never called to account for his lack of planning and action.So for an accurate account of those horrible days up and down the Gulf Coast, this is the book for you.

I am an avid reader of all books about Hurricane Katrina, and of the volumes I have read, The Great Deluge has been the best read. It really gives points of view of all parties involved, and even though the length initially worried me, I couldn't put it down. For those of us who lived near and through this storm and its effects, this book is the real story and puts to rest a lot of rumors that have circulated for the ten years since the event.This was a catastrophic natural disaster of monumental proportions, and Douglas Brinkley brings all of the elements to the surface for you the reader to see and experience. It could well serve as a textbook for the study of this storm.

Perhaps it’s because my parents lived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast during Katrina - but had evacuated to Jackson, MS before the hurricane hit - or perhaps it’s because of my long history with the city of New Orleans, but by the time I read this book, Katrina and all her related circumstances were firmly seared into my memory. I do admit I didn’t know (or remember) how woefully unprepared New Orleans and the surrounding areas were for the event; nor did I know of the hundreds of angels who worked tirelessly to save people. But I have to say that after a while, the story-after-story narrative grew tiresome. I mean no disrespect to the book itself, just that it is told dispassionately and somehow I wanted more from it. I guess this points to the fact that this is a history book, not an opinion piece. If you want the former, you’ll be satisfied. If you want the latter, you won’t be.The bottom line though is how do you write words that tell the story of Katrina? Words fail. Only emotion works.

This is an excellent book. I keep up with the news, so I knew damage wise Katrina was bad and all the TV footage was showing just how overwhelming it was. It's a miracle there were no epidemics of cholera or typhoid from people wading in that water and having to live and sleep in those polluted conditions. Not to mention the fever epidemics that accompany standing, putrid waters, high temperatures and breeding mosquitoes. The political shenanigans were totally ridiculous and unforgivable. FEMA needs to be torn apart and begun over from scratch. I never thought creating one master agency to oversee all the agencies was really smart. Each agency has it's own way of working and totally different objectives. Each needs to be responsible in it's own right for it's own specialty work. Instead they fight among each other for control and things get left undone until everything is out of hand. Why can't FEMA get it's act together on spot. If there is an F5 tornado with no warning everybody in the area gets together and gets started with rescue, food,water, supplies, and shelters. FEMA sneaks in on the coat tails of the local, state, regional, American Red Cross, Salvation Army, and Church Volunteers. They have not cleaned up their act yet. The job they performed in Superstorm Sandy wasn't any better. They can blame that on racism or poorly trained or unprofessional firemen and EMS. Nor could they dump on poor well meaning local and state officials who did their jobs. They coped when hit with the unexpected too. FEMA needs to clean up and get their act together. I am glad I read this book. There is a lot of food for thought in it. Who are we voting for? What is their true past record? Will they truly work in our best interests?

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