Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America John M BarryI and many others have mentioned this one before. Most of us remember it as this year's One Book One New Orleans selection. The Katrina aftermath has brought one eerie reminder of the the book's themes after another. The problems of race and poverty, the political damage control operation, the power of the New Orleans Carnival aristocracy, the misuse of St. Bernard Parish residents, the ineptitude of the Army Corps of Engineers. It's all there in Barry's book.
Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History Erik Larson1900 Galveston, TX is wiped out by a killer storm. The city never really recovers. What will happen this time?