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America's Great Storm
Haley Barbour
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Description for America's Great Storm
A first-person account of the year following the worst natural disaster in American history Num Pages: 276 pages, 220 black & white photographs; 1 map. BIC Classification: HBJ; JPB; RNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
When Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi on August 29, 2005, it unleashed the costliest natural disaster in American history, and the third deadliest. Haley Barbour had been Mississippi's governor for only twenty months when he assumed responsibility for guiding his pummeled, stricken state's recovery and rebuilding efforts. America's Great Storm is not only a personal memoir of his role in that recovery, but also a sifting of the many lessons he learned about leadership in a time of massive crisis.
For the book, the authors interviewed more than forty-five key people involved in helping Mississippi recover, including local, state, and ... Read more
When Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi on August 29, 2005, it unleashed the costliest natural disaster in American history, and the third deadliest. Haley Barbour had been Mississippi's governor for only twenty months when he assumed responsibility for guiding his pummeled, stricken state's recovery and rebuilding efforts. America's Great Storm is not only a personal memoir of his role in that recovery, but also a sifting of the many lessons he learned about leadership in a time of massive crisis.
For the book, the authors interviewed more than forty-five key people involved in helping Mississippi recover, including local, state, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Number of Pages
276
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781496805065
SKU
V9781496805065
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About Haley Barbour
Haley Barbour, Yazoo City, Mississippi, served as Mississippi's governor from 2004 to 2012 and is founding partner of the Washington, DC, firm BGR Group.|Jere Nash, Jackson, Mississippi, is coauthor of Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2008 (published by University Press of Mississippi) and Mississippi Fried Politics: Tall Tales from the Backroom.
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