BOOK REVIEW: “Breach of Faith” (Random House, June 2006)
Author Jed Horne has blended real life stories with one of the decade’s most memorable — and horrific — events. With the unfortunate exception of some inaccurate undocumented passages in Chapter 17 (Horne relied on verbal testimony), this book is excellent and likely will be widely read for decades.
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BOOK REVIEW: “Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow” (Island Press, October 2009)
Authors William R. Freudenburg, Robert Gramling, Shirley Laska and Kai Erikson tell a fascinating story of what they consider the most dangerous project undertaken in the history of Louisiana’s lower delta — the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO). And as the title implies, this project serves as a warning call to us all.
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BOOK REVIEW: “Perilous Place, Power Storms: Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana” (University of Mississippi Press, September 2009).
Craig E. Colton’s new book presents a massive amount of important data on the man made vulnerability of coastal Louisiana. In meticulous detail, the LSU Geography professor explains how engineering mistakes, funding battles, and newly imposed law requirements resulted in an inadequate and incomplete flood protection system when Katrina arrived in August 2005.
