Path of Destruction by John McQuaid and Mark Schleifstein

Lawrence Powell reviewed Path of Destruction for the Newhouse News Service recently and said:

The major contribution of “Path of Destruction,” though, may be its close examination of disaster mismanagement. There are a lot of culprits in McQuaid and Schleifstein’s account. But it’s far from clear that Mike Brown should head the list. The defectiveness of the federal response began months, probably years, before Katrina hit.

Read the entire review online here.

The New Republic’s Michael Grunwald has just written an article that discusses why Katrina should be viewed as a man-made disaster. During the course of the article he talks about the various books that have been written about the storm, including Path of Destruction. He writes:

No one understands this better than Times-Picayune reporters John McQuaid and Mark Schleifstein, who have not only written an insightful book about Katrina, Path of Destruction, but also predicted the disaster in 2002 in a remarkable series of articles that saved lives, and would have saved more if it had been properly appreciated.

in part two of the article. You can find the full article in the August 14, 2006 issue of The New Republic on newsstands or you can find it on The New Republic’s website (subscription required).

NPR recently recorded a special story for Morning Edition that goes through a day in the life around New Orleans. Around two minutes into the story (which you can hear via Real Player or Windows Media Player on their site), Steve Inskeep interviews Path of Destruction co-author Mark Schleifstein about the current state of business on the Mississippi River and the activity in the Lower Ninth Ward of the city. You can also view photos from the story along with information on the Washing Away series via the audio slideshow link.

Read the rest of the story, listen to the full version and view the slideshow at NPR’s site.

Jason Berry of Gambit Weekly recently reviewed Path of Destruction with two other Katrina related books. He found the “chronicle of the Katrina debacle…moving” and “sobering.”
Read more at the Gambit Weekly site.

Margo Hammond recently wrote a short review of Path of Destruction and a few other Hurricane Katrina related books for the St. Petersburg Times. She gives a quick round up of each book and notes the research behind Path of Destruction.
Read the rest of the the story on the St. Petersburg Times site.

Recently NPR’s All Things Considered did a story on the various Katrina related books that have been recently released or will be released soon. Jason Berry discussed Path of Destruction and six other books including Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? by Toni McGee Causey, Colleen Mondor and Jason Berry, The Storm by Ivor van Heerden and Mike Bryan, The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley, Breach of Faith by Jed Horne, Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper, and 1 Dead in Attic by Chris Rose and Charlie Varley (Photographer).

Check out the full story here.