The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
8 best books like The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Douglas Brinkley): Zeitoun, Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City, The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda, Why New Orleans Matters, Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans, Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans, The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America, Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 1934781630 |
The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates...
| Author | Jed Horne |
| ISBN | 1400065526 |
Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As an editor of New Orleans’ daily newspaper, the Pulitzer Prize—winning Times-Picayune, Jed Horne...
The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda
| Author | Ali H. Soufan |
| ISBN | 0393079422 |
A book that will change the way we think about al-Qaeda, intelligence, and the events that forever changed America.
On September 11, 2001, FBI Special Agent Ali H. Soufan was handed a secret file. Had he received it months earlier—when it was requested—the attacks on New York and Washington could...
| 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...
| Author | Roy Blount Jr. |
| ISBN | 1400046459 |
“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with...
The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America
From CNN’s veteran Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, an explosive, first-hand account of the dangers he faces reporting on the current White House while fighting on the front lines in President Trump’s war on truth.
In Mr. Trump’s campaign against what he calls “Fake News,”...
Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
| Author | Gary Krist |
| ISBN | 0770437060 |
From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City
Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years...
