Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2006-08-16. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x0x9. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. 368 pages; light edge wear to jacket and boards; Katrina was the signal event of the new century, a body blow to the national self-image. Scenes Americans expect to see in far-off, ungovernable countries have now unfolded in the mightiest nation on earth: victims struggling to survive amid depravity and death, an entire city reduced to an empty shell, a diaspora of refugees unseen since the days of the Dust Bowl.Even as rebuilding gets underway, a sense of shock and confusion lingers. Indeed, sensationalism and political finger-pointing have made it nearly impossible to distinguish the truth from the spin. But now, John McQuaid and Mark Schleifstein cut through the confusion to offer a clear explanation for the greatest natural disaster in American history.