Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
10 best books like Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City (Jed Horne): Up the Down Staircase, Herzog, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Sins of the Fathers, The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, Why New Orleans Matters, Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans, Voices from the Storm: The People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath, The Corpse Bridge
| Author | Bel Kaufman |
| ISBN | 0060973617 |
Bel Kaufman's Up the Down Staircase is one of the best-loved novels of our time. It has been translated into sixteen languages, made into a prize-winning motion picture, and staged as a play at high schools all over the United States; its very title has become part of the American idiom.
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| Author | Saul Bellow |
| ISBN | 0142437298 |
This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life steadily disintegrates around him - he has failed as a writer and teacher, as a father, and has lost the affection of his wife to his best friend - Herzog sees himself as a survivor, both of his private disasters...
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
| Author | Shoshana Zuboff |
| ISBN | 1610395697 |
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.
In this masterwork of original thinking and research,...
| Author | J.A. Jance |
| ISBN | 0062853457 |
Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont is drawn into an intriguing, and shockingly personal, case in this superb tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance.
Former Seattle homicide cop, J. P. Beaumont, is learning to enjoy the new realities of retirementdoing morning...
| Author | Douglas Brinkley |
| ISBN | 0061124230 |
In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. Yet those wind-torn hours represented only the first stage of the relentless triple tragedy that Katrina brought to the entire Gulf Coast, from Louisiana...
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
| Author | Anand Giridharadas |
| ISBN | 0451493249 |
An insider's groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve.
Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded...
| Author | Tom Piazza |
| ISBN | 0061124834 |
Every place has its history. But what is it about New Orleans that makes it more than just the sum of the events that have happened there? What is it about the spirit of the people who live there that could produce a music, a cuisine, an architecture, a total environment, the mere mention of which can bring...
The hidden history of a haunted and beloved city told through the intersecting lives of nine remarkable characters
After Hurricane Katrina, Dan Baum moved to New Orleans to write about the city’s response to the disaster for The New Yorker. He quickly realized that Katrina was not the most...
Voices from the Storm: The People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath
| Author | Lola Vollen |
| ISBN | 1932416684 |
Toen Orkaan Katrina op 29 augustus 2005 de stad New Orleans bereikte, was het reeds te laat voor hen die zich niet in veiligheid konden brengen: hulp van de overheid bleef uit en zou pas na weken - nadat (inter)nationale druk werd uitgeoefend - op gang komen: het regime van George W. Bush had andere prioriteiten...
The old Corpse Bridge is the route taken for centuries by mourners from villages on the western fringes of Derbyshire to a burial ground across the River Dove, now absorbed into the landscaped parkland of a stately home. When Earl Manby, the landowner, announces plans to deconsecrate the burial ground...
Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans
| Author | Joan B. Garvey |
| ISBN | 0961296003 |
This is a book that doesn't quite know what it wants to be: there are notes in it as if it is academic, but it's not a particular rigorous read nor does it take any point of view. It begins as a historical and chronological narrative but shifts gears midstream and turns to a topical approach that quickly leaps...
On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
| Author | Emily Guendelsberger |
| ISBN | 0316509000 |
After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon fulfillment center outside Louisville, Kentucky. There, the vending machines were stocked with painkillers, and the staff turnover was dizzying. In the new year, she traveled...
