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Summary:

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three people lost their lives. The riveting tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism, and courage -- and also of incompetence, racism, and criminality. Don Brown's kinetic art and as-it-happens narrative capture both the tragedy and triumph of one of the worst natural disasters in American history. A portion of the proceeds from this book has been donated to Habitat for Humanity New Orleans.

Author/Creator:

Brown, Don , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Drowned city: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans [by Brown, D.]

Subjects:

Hurricane Katrina, 2005

Disaster victims — Louisiana — New Orleans

Racism — United States

Social classes — Louisiana — New Orleans

Hurricane Katrina (2005)

2005

Racism

Social classes

Disaster victims

Louisiana — New Orleans

United States

Genres:

Documentary comics

General Notes:

Description based on: Title details screen (OverDrive, viewed May 7, 2015).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

J363.34 B877dr eb

ISBNs:

9780544673052 (electronic bk.)
0544673050 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

907950117