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City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jason BerryPublish date:2021-02-01Pages:424
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469664026ISBN-10:146966402XUPC:9781469664026Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Social History, SociologyBook Topic:State & Local, UrbanSize:9.10 x 7.70 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCN8WN714B
In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians, and everyday people. The scene captured the history and culture of the city in microcosm--a city legendary for its noisy, complicated, tradition-rich splendor. In City of a Million Dreams, Jason Berry delivers a character-driven history of New Orleans at its tricentennial. Chronicling cycles of invention, struggle, death, and rebirth, Berry reveals the city's survival as a triumph of diversity, its map-of-the-world neighborhoods marked by resilience despite hurricanes, epidemics, fires, and floods.

Berry orchestrates a parade of vibrant personalities, from the founder Bienville, a warrior emblazoned with snake tattoos; to Governor William C. C. Claiborne, General Andrew Jackson, and Pere Antoine, an influential priest and secret agent of the Inquisition; Sister Gertrude Morgan, a street evangelist and visionary artist of the 1960s; and Michael White, the famous clarinetist who remade his life after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina. The textured profiles of this extraordinary cast furnish a dramatic narrative of the beloved city, famous the world over for mysterious rituals as people dance when they bury their dead.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469664026ISBN-10:146966402XUPC:9781469664026Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Social History, SociologyBook Topic:State & Local, UrbanSize:9.10 x 7.70 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCN8WN714B
Berry, Jason: - Jason Berry is an independent writer, documentary film producer, and journalist living in New Orleans.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

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