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Katrina - A History, 1915-2015 (Hardcover)
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Katrina - A History, 1915-2015 (Hardcover)
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Winner of the Bancroft Prize A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction
Book of the Year The definitive history of Katrina: an epic of
citymaking, revealing how engineers and oil executives, politicians
and musicians, and neighbors black and white built New Orleans,
then watched it sink under the weight of their competing ambitions.
Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005,
but the decisions that caused the disaster extend across the
twentieth century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in
1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers could
safely build housing away from the high ground near the
Mississippi. And so New Orleans grew in lowlands that relied on
significant government subsidies to stay dry. When the flawed levee
system surrounding the city and its suburbs failed, these were the
neighborhoods that were devastated. The homes that flooded belonged
to Louisianans black and white, rich and poor. Katrina's flood
washed over the twentieth-century city. The flood line tells one
important story about Katrina, but it is not the only story that
matters. Andy Horowitz investigates the response to the flood, when
policymakers reapportioned the challenges the water posed, making
it easier for white New Orleanians to return home than it was for
African Americans. And he explores how the profits and liabilities
created by Louisiana's oil industry have been distributed unevenly
among the state's citizens for a century, prompting both dreams of
abundance-and a catastrophic land loss crisis that continues today.
Laying bare the relationship between structural inequality and
physical infrastructure-a relationship that has shaped all American
cities-Katrina offers a chilling glimpse of the future disasters we
are already creating.
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