The Book Prize Index

The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Douglas Brinkley

An account of Hurricane Katrina and the devastation it left in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast documents the events and repercussions of the tragedy and its aftermath and the ongoing crisis confronting the region.

HistoryHistory · medium confidenceHistory81 signalsLlm Classifier: History -> HistoryOpen Library: Disaster victims -> Nature & EnvironmentOpen Library: Disaster relief -> Nature & EnvironmentClimate, Weather & DisasterOceans, Rivers & WaterNatural History & Animals

Award History

1 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Robert F. Kennedy Book Award2007Co-winnerOfficial source
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current InterestMajor2006FinalistSecondary source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    • New Orleans90%
    • the Mississippi Gulf Coast85%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.