Sandy Rosenthal speaks to reporters in April 2009. Photo/Stanford Rosenthal
Words Whispered in Water is the riveting account of citizen investigator and activist Sandy Rosenthal as she battles the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after defective flood walls broke during Hurricane Katrina, inundating New Orleans and resulting in over 1,500 deaths and billions of dollars worth of damage.
Against incredible odds, facing continuous harassment and deception, Rosenthal turns every defeat into victory.
There are secret plots, subterfuge and scandals! The Corps first ignores Rosenthal, then they hire a public relations firm to infiltrate her grassroots citizen group, Levees.org, and attack her.
The unbreakable activist pursues every scrap of evidence in dozens of reports and studies about the floodwall failures. Ten years after the breaches, Rosenthal and her team successfully corrected the record, getting The New York Times to run a major story on how everyone, including the Army Corps of Engineers, got the Katrina story wrong, and how the Corps spent millions to attack the activist who insisted they set the record straight.