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Katrina: A History, 1915-2015

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Winner of the Bancroft Prize

An award-winning investigation into the social and political aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

“The main thrust of Horowitz’s account is to make us understand Katrina—the civic calamity, not the storm itself—as a consequence of decades of bad decisions by humans, not an unanticipated caprice of nature.”
—Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker

Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster can be traced back nearly a ...