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Brinkley, Douglas The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast William Morrow 2006 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or985647. ISBN #0061124230 / 9780061124235. (filed under: Louisiana ) *
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Brinkley, Douglas The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast William Morrow 2006 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or985647. ISBN #0061124230 / 9780061124235. (filed under: Louisiana ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary 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 to Mississippi to Alabama. First came the hurricane, one of the three strongest ever to make landfall in the United States -- 150-mile- per-hour winds, with gusts measuring more than 180 miles per hour ripping buildings to pieces. Second, the storm-surge flooding, which submerged a half million homes, creating the largest domestic refugee crisis since the Civil War. Eighty percent of New Orleans was under water, as debris and sewage coursed through the streets, and whole towns in south-eastern Louisiana ceased to exist. And third, the human tragedy of government mis-management, which proved as cruel as the natural disaster itself. Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans, implemented an evacuation plan that favored the rich and healthy. Kathleen Blanco, governor of Louisiana, dithered in the most important aspect of her job: providing leadership in a time of fear and confusion. Michael C. Brown, the FEMA director, seemed more concerned with his sartorial splendor than the specter of death and horror that was taking New Orleans into its grip. In The Great Deluge, bestselling author Douglas Brinkley, a New Orleans resident and professor of history at Tulane University, rips the story of Katrina apart and relates what the Category 3 hurricane was like from every point of view. The book finds the true heroes -- such as Coast Guard officer Jimmy Duckworth and hurricane jock Tony Zumbado. Throughout the book, Brinkley lets the Katrina survivors tell their own stories, masterly allowing them to record the nightmare that was Katrina. The Great Deluge investigates the failure of government at every level and breaks important new stories. Packed with interviews and original research, it traces the character flaws, inexperience, and ulterior motives that allowed the Katrina disaster to devastate the Gulf Coast.
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Cable, George W. Old Creole Days hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Wear from use. Cracked Hinge / still useable. Book #or1111511. (filed under: Louisiana ) *
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Sprague, Marshall So Vast, So Beautiful a Land: Louisiana and the Purchase Little, Brown and Company 1974 hardcover. The dustjacket is chipped.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or814466. ISBN #0316807664 / 9780316807661. (keywords: American History) (filed under: Louisiana ) *
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Sprague, Marshall So Vast, So Beautiful a Land: Louisiana and the Purchase Little, Brown and Company 1974 hardcover. The dustjacket is chipped.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or814466. ISBN #0316807664 / 9780316807661. (keywords: American History) (filed under: Louisiana ) *
Recounts how explorers discovered the Mississippi region and discusses the political, economic, and social factors that led to the Louisiana Purchase.
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Taylor, Joe Gray Louisiana: A History W. W. Norton & Company 1984 paperback. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Remnant of sticker removal. Book #or879634. ISBN #0393301745 / 9780393301748. (filed under: Louisiana ) *
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Taylor, Joe Gray Louisiana: A History W. W. Norton & Company 1984 paperback. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Remnant of sticker removal. Book #or879634. ISBN #0393301745 / 9780393301748. (filed under: Louisiana ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the earliest colonists through the latest Mardi Gras, Louisiana has had a history as exotic as that of any state. Even its political corruption--extending from French governors for whom office was exploitable property through the "Louisiana Hayride" following the death of Huey Long--seems to have had a glamorous side. Handing the colony of Louisiana back and forth between their empires, the French and Spanish left a legacy that lives in such forms as the architecture of the Vieux Carre and a civil law deriving from the Napoleonic Code. Acadian refugees, German farmers, black slaves and free blacks, along with Italians, Irish, and the "Kaintucks" who helped Andrew Jackson win the Battle of New Orleans added to the state's distinctiveness. Made rich by sugar cane, cotton, and Mississippi River commerce before the Civil War, Louisiana faced poverty afterward. Battles between Bourbon Democrats and Reconstruction Republicans followed, ultimately involving the Custom House Ring and the Knights of the White Camelia. By methods that remain controversial, Huey Long ended "government by gentlemen" with economic transformations other had sought. Gas, oil, and industrialization have additionally "Americanized" the state. Something of Louisiana's historic joie de vivre remains, however, to the gratification of residents and visitors alike; both will enjoy Joe Gray Taylor's telling of the story.
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Walker, George T. The Building Of a University Taylor Pub. Co 1991 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or931397. (filed under: Louisiana ) *
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Zinman, David H. Day Huey Long Was Shot September 8, 1935 Univ Pr of Mississippi 1993 Trade Paperback. Clean text. B&W photos.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or550748. ISBN #0878056297 / 9780878056293. (keywords: LONG HUEY PIERCE 1893 1935 AMERICAN POLITICS POLITICAL HISTORY BIOGRAPHY UNITED STATES) (filed under: Louisiana ) *
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