Hurricane Katrina : The Storm That Changed America

by Editors of Time Magazine

• ISBN13: 9781933405131
• ISBN10: 1933405139
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-15
• Publisher: Time Home Entertainment Inc

Summary

On Sept. 2, 2005, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued a "desperate SOS."His city, one of Americas most historic and gracious urban centers, had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina.Now 80% of it lay underwater, while some citizens huddled on rooftops waiting for rescue, and others turned the flooded streets into canals of anarchy.In the first decade of the 21st century, despair, disease, and death had transformed a great American city into a scene of third-world privation, even as heroic rescue workers battled to save lives, restore order, and aid the suffering. Now Time chronicles the story of the greatest natural disaster in U.S. history in Hurricane Katrina, An American Tragedy.Here, in stunning pictures and gripping first-hand accounts, is the terrible tale of Katrinas deadly wrath and savage aftermath.Here is Americas Gulf Coastfrom New Orleans to Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippiin ruins.Here are the struggling survivors and their valiant rescuers, the looters and the police who fought to control them, the homeless refugees who poured across the southeast, and the resourceful agencies that took them in. It is an epic tale, told as only Time can tell it.Award-winning pictures reveal the scope of the disaster. Oral histories offer unforgettable accounts of natures power and mans resourcefulness.Illuminating graphics show how hurricanes formand why New Orleans flooded.Powerful reporting puts readers on the scene, while insightful analysis explores the questions left in Katrinas wake: could the tragedy have been prevented, and why was aid so late to arrive? Moving and informative, sweeping in scope and ringing with the voices of those who were there, Hurricane Katrina, An American Tragedy is the definitive account of a disaster that will haunt Americans for decades to come.

Table of Contents

Saving America's soul kitchen : for jazz genius Wynton Marsalis, the rebuilding of New Orleans can help re-create America
Images : memorable photos of a remarkable storm	p. 2
Hard times in the Big Easy : from Mardi Gras to A streetcar named desire, why New Orleans is the hot sauce in America's cupboard	p. 28
New Orleans under water : graphic : why and how the city's levees failed	p. 34
9 days of disaster : an hour-by-hour account of a city under siege	p. 36
Katrina's last casualty : truth : when facts are scarce, rumors flourish	p. 54
Viewfinder : Thomas Dworzak : a photojournalist's portfolio	p. 56
Catastrophe along the coast : the graceful, grand old coastline of Mississippi takes a beating from Katrina's winds and waves	p. 64
Viewfinder : Chris Usher : a photojournalist's portfolio	p. 76
In Katrina's wake, a time for heroes : governments may have faltered when the storm struck, but Good Samaritans helped their neighbors	p. 82
Power failure : why government agencies - at all levels - let down the people of the Gulf Coast in their time of need	p. 88
No direction home : Katrina's diaspora : in the greatest internal U.S. exodus since the Depression, Katrina's victims seek shelter	p. 96
Viewfinder : John Chiasson : a photojournalist's portfolio	p. 102
A whirlwind of generosity : stirred by a great natural disaster and a fumbling, man-made response, Americans pitch in to help out	p. 106
Dirty work : with their homes in shreds and tatters, Gulf Coasters begin a massive cleanup job	p. 110
A new dawn for the crescent city? : President George W. Bush pledges to rebuild New Orleans : but whose vision of the future will prevail?	p. 118
Viewfinder : Robert Stolarik : a photojournalist's portfolio	p. 122
Paths of destruction : graphic : Hurricane Rita draws a bead on the gulf	p. 128
Hurricane Rita : deja vu all over again : a monster storm slams into eastern Louisiana and Texas, but with Katrina's example, lives are saved	p. 130
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