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Storms After The Storm
Author Self-Published
July 2011
On Sale: June 22, 2011
304 pages
ISBN: 146095971X
EAN: 9781460959718
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Non-Fiction
Gaining a firm grasp on the highly complex, famously fraught
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina can seem as tenuous as its
victims’ shaky grasp on survival. One man, then Mayor C. Ray
Nagin, was the metaphoric eye of the storm. Charged with
assessing the forces that swirled around him, the city’s
leader strove to maintain formidable calm in the face of the
biggest natural and man-made disaster in America’s history.
That is, until he simply could not. Now, Nagin’s
long-awaited account, Katrina’s Secrets: Storms after the
Storm, lays out the days leading up to and following the
storm. At once stirringly elegiac and disarmingly candid,
this spellbinding reckoning delivers exacting detail, while
boldly exposing secrets that, until now, have been glossed
over or spun out. Each hour, Nagin navigated tumultuous
political channels, all while survivors clung to rooftops
and begged for drinking water. Nagin’s team confronted
thousands of calls pleading for rescue; politicos more keen
to pose for photos than to pose solutions; broken promises
from FEMA; and the violent Superdome; and the controversial
acts of some police. When he at last broke down in a radio
interview, the world cried with him. Clear and
compassionate, the author illuminates the unparalleled
complexity of the city’s immediate and far-reaching
response. He charts the magnitude of the efforts undertaken
in response to the lives that hung in the balance and the
actions taken to restore New Orleans to its rightful luster.
Katrina’s Secrets also provides crucial context of race and
class to shed new and unnerving light on how the events
played out. Throughout the searing narrative, Nagin’s deep
love of his native city shines through like a beacon in the
treacherous, storm-tossed night. Any reader dumbfounded by
the fallout of Katrina will cling to every graceful, gutsy
page of this heartbreaking ode to a place like no other, and
its breathtaking comeback. Katrina’s Secrets is certain to
give ample pause for thought—and cause to act.
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