Detailed retelling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. One gets very angry reading this book. Some people come off pretty well: Governor Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana, the Coast Guard, even Michael Brown comes off "better" than he did during the storm, (totally scapegoated by the Bush Administration) and others come off terribly, (Mayor Ray Nagin, Michael Chertoff and of course, Bush). Good history and background on the levies in New Orleans and how the city was originally constructed, as well as why New Orleans is where it is.