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Rivlin, Gary.

Katrina : after the Flood / Gary Rivlin.

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2015.

xvi, 462 pages : maps ; 24 cm

"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.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.

New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions.

After the Flood

Includes bibliographical references (pages [425]-433) and index.

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".

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