Rising from Katrina: How My Mississippi Hometown Lost It All and Found What Mattered - Softcover

Koch, Kathleen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0895873842 ISBN 13: 9780895873842

Verlag: Blair, 2010

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Book by Kathleen Koch Anderson Cooper

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"The random acts of kindness you will hear about in the book can't help but renew your faith and humble you at the same time. Kathleen captures the challenges, victories, and can-do attitude the people of the Mississippi coast exhibited after this horrible disaster. It is a great read!" Brett Favre, NFL great and Mississippi Gulf Coast native

The 2005 Hurricane Season was the most devastating in history. People from the Bahamas to Mexico to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida suffered a record fifteen hurricanes, four of which reached Category 5 strength.

Katrina was the costliest. Images from the Superdome and the rooftops of New Orleans are seared into the American consciousness.

But few realize the Mississippi Gulf Coast was where Katrina hit full force and where the destruction was worst. Entire towns were reduced to shoulder-high rubble by the winds and the unprecedented thirty-foot storm surge.

Bay St. Louis was the former home of CNN correspondent Kathleen Koch. From her initial Katrina assignment in Alabama, Koch headed west in the storm's aftermath. The closer she got to her community, the more personal the story became. She reported from the sites of once-beautiful homes---including her own---stripped to their concrete pads. Time and again, she heard residents' pleas to spread the word about the dire needs on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Rising from katrina is a story of the kindness of strangers, of minor miracles---and, above all, of how despite bureaucratic snarls and insurance battles a region rolled up its sleeves and rebuilt. It is also the story of a veteran reporter who, struggling to maintain her objectivity amid loss, traveled her own personal path from devastation to recovery.

Biografía del autor:

Kathleen Koch is an award-winning broadcast journalist and former longtime CNN correspondent based in Washington, D.C. She shared in the Peabody Award CNN won for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina.

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• Verlag: Blair
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0895873842
• ISBN 13: 9780895873842
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 358