Katrina: After the Flood - Tapa blanda

"A fascinating lesson in urban planning in the face of calamity and financial shenanigans about what has been deemed "the most expensive disaster in history."--Booklist

"A gem of a book--well-reported, deftly written, tightly focused. It's a book that will appeal to the urban planner and the Mardi Gras reveler...'Katrina' is a genuine success, and is a starting point for anyone interested in how The City That Care Forgot develops in its second decade of recovery."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Painstakingly researched...Rivlin's reporting allows him to paint deep portraits of his characters and explain relationships...Rivlin does an admirable job keeping the political personal and helping readers understand how deeply and devastatingly Katrina affected everyone in the city...The book is timed to come out a couple of weeks before the 10th anniversary of Katrina, but the timing this summer is equally important as part of the conversation America is currently having on the subject of race relations."-Miami Herald

"A riveting, wide-ranging but detailed account of Katrina's immediate impact and its aftermath."-Tampa Bay Tribune

"Rivlin's valuable book is among the first to relate, in clear and scrupulous detail, the decisions that have brought us this far, and to identify those who made them...Rivlin is a sharp observer and a dogged reporter. He is unerringly compassionate toward his subjects...But Rivlin's most valuable journalistic skill is his acute sensitivity to absurdity. He is particularly piqued by the absurdity of racial and economic injustice." - The New York Times Book Review

"One of the must-reads of the season...Rivlin offers a good report of what happened during the storm, the bureaucratic snarls and blockages that followed and, most of all, the human cost to all New Orleanians."-The New Orleans Advocate

"[A] carefully researched, beautifully written book."-San Francisco Bay View

"Journalist Gary Rivlin sweeps from street to boardroom in this history of the aftermath...As Rivlin sharply reminds, overcoming disasters is very much an issue of governance."-Nature Magazine

"It is in large part because race lately imposes itself upon our national consciousness with even greater force than usual that Gary Rivlin's vital, comprehensive account of Hurricane Katrina's long-term impact on the city of New Orleans comes across less as a 10-year-anniversary marker of an indelible calamity and more as an up-to-the-minute microcosm of our larger society...manages to pack into a lean, taut narrative the heartbreaking setbacks, thwarted dreams and the confounding, repeated inability of anybody in power to either get things done or transcend festering social divisions...As with the finest works of journalism, Rivlin's book deploys the tools of his trade to illuminate the segment of history he examines - and make us wonder about the things we all have in common with those in New Orleans."-USA Today

"[Rivlin] constructs his narrative to give readers unfamiliar with the terrain a cohesive back story and illustrates the aftermath through a cross-section of people." - Chicago Tribune

Tracing the stories of New Orleanians from all walks of life as they confront the aftermath of one of the great tragedies of our age, an investigative journalist revisits Hurricane Katrina's immediate damage; the city of New Orleans' efforts to rebuild itself; and the storm's lasting effects on the psychic, racial and social fabric of one of this nation's great cities.