Sandy Rosenthal

In the aftermath of one of the worst disasters in US history, Words Whispered in Water tells the story of one woman's fight, against all odds, to expose a mammoth federal agency-and win. In 2005, the entire world watched as a major US city was nearly wiped off the map. The levees ruptured and New Orleans drowned. But while newscasters attributed the New Orleans flood to "natural catastrophes" and other types of disasters, citizen investigator Sandy...