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City of a million dreams: a history of New Orleans at year 300

By Berry , Jason

Book information

Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781469647142, 9781469647159, 9781469647166, 1469647168
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7862927 bytes)
Series
North Carolina scholarship online
Pages
illustrations (black and white)\424
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
History;New Orleans (La.) -- History;Louisiana --

Description

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 splendour. 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 neighbourhoods marked by resilience despite hurricanes, epidemics, fires, and floods.

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