Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Katrina: After the Flood’

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 7 August 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This week, Gary Rivlin discusses “Katrina: After the Flood”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Joe Domanick talks about “Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	What's the state of New Orleans on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina?
0:08.0	Gary Riftlin will tell us about his new book, Katrina, After the Flood.
0:12.2	We all have this sense of let the good times roll and Rawlings black white together, you
0:16.3	know, parading and that's true.
0:17.8	But there was a lot of tensions in the party, city leading up to Katrina.
0:21.4	There's very much a black white split and that just got worse, I believe, with an unequal
0:26.6	recovery.
0:27.6	Will police reform possible?
0:29.2	Joe Dominick will be here to talk about his new book, Blue, the LAPD and the battle to
0:34.1	redeem American policing.
0:35.7	Let's do what needs to be done to reduce crime.
0:41.6	We're not any longer going to just be responders to crime.
0:46.1	We're going to prevent crime.
0:48.0	Alexander Alter will fill us in on the latest from the literary world.
0:51.2	Greg Cole's has bestseller news.
0:53.6	This is Inside the New York Times Booker View.
0:55.3	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:57.6	Gary Riftlin is here now to talk about his new book, Katrina, After the Flood.
1:10.4	Hi, Gary.
1:11.4	Hi.
1:12.4	So you reported on Katrina for the times where you based in New Orleans at that time or
1:16.9	how did you come to cover?
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