Posted on 09/12/2005 7:39:08 PM PDT by Rakkasan1
NEW YORK - In the first major book deal related to Hurricane Katrina, historian and best-selling author Douglas Brinkley is planning "an analysis and narrative of the ongoing crisis in New Orleans in historical context," according to his publisher William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins.
The book, tentatively titled "The Great Deluge," is scheduled to be published by Morrow early next year.
Financial terms were not disclosed Monday and there was no immediate word on whether any proceeds would be donated to charity.
"Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history," Brinkley, a professor at the New Orleans-based Tulane University who was in town when the storm hit," said in a statement. "With the death toll rising and toxic sludge draining into Lake Pontchartrain, it's imperative that we learn what went wrong."
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Man will this book be biased against Bush. Brinkley was the "historian" that was part of Sean Penn's posse in the sinking rowboat in N.O. last week. And then I heard a brief clip on Brinkley on Imus and he was putting the full blame on Bush for Katrina. History books should be stamped with the author's political affiliations.
or "the great failure to execute any plan"
Yet another BASH BUSH book on the market???
Blech...Douglas Brinkley sold out any credibility to John Kerry...which makes him a prostitute writer...
NOT a legit historian.
Does Brinkley know that the hurricane worked for the CIA in 'Nam?
maybe fake historian Michael Bellesiles will give him his rescinded Bancroft Award.
Yesh--Revisionist history before there's something to revise! Now historians aren't even letting there be an inspiring tale of heroism and greatness, a story that makes one proud to be American...instead we jump straight into the white male bashing.
Newflash to the Scholar--history can't be about contemporaneous events, or at least it shouldn't be. Some time should pass before any analysis is attempted.
This only adds resolve to my belief that leftism is nothing more than an enduring mental adolescence. Teenagers despise their parents because, well, they're their parents. They fail to appreciate their folks' virtues until later in life. Likewise, liberals find fault with their country out of lack of perspective and gratefulness.
Works for me. EVERYONE should write a book about Katrina and sit back and watch the Big Bucks roll in!
Is that why "W.W. Beauchamp" Brinkley was following around "English Bob" Penn?
Worse than the Galveston hurricane of 1900?
I don't THINK so.
Over 6,000 were killed - real victims, not figments of Ray Nagin's fetid imagination.
No kidding a book, the sun will rise in the east and dogs will bite man, so where is the news?
Not "The Great Bush Soaking" or similar?
Maybe the toxic sludge would kill the e. coli which up until now has prevented rational people from swimming there.
But I can't imagine where the "toxic sludge" came from - Tulane's not near Ponchartrain.
He lives in NOLA -- was out with Sean Penn in his book.
You've got that right.
Gee.. I'm so glad that's someone's going to make a few million bucks off of this national tragedy.
He'll write the book and Michael Moore will make it into a movie
This book will be one page.... IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT.
Yo, Author... I've read it. I've heard it. I'm sick of it.
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