Related Books

Driven from New Orleans
Language: en
Pages: 346
Authors: John Arena
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In the early 1980s the tenant leaders of the New Orleans St. Thomas public housing development and their activist allies were militant, uncompromising defenders
City of a Million Dreams
Language: en
Pages: 424
Authors: Jason Berry
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-25 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch La
The Inevitable City
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Scott Cowen
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-10 - Publisher: Macmillan

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The incredible story of how New Orleans came back after Hurricane Katrina stronger than before, and how its success can be reproduced, from the man who spearhea
Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith
Language: en
Pages: 237
Authors: Vincanne Adams
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-04 - Publisher: Duke University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration of the privat
Down in New Orleans
Language: en
Pages: 369
Authors: Billy Sothern
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-27 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Sothern, a death penalty lawyer who with his wife, photographer Nikki Page, arrived in New Orleans four years ahead of Katrina, delivers a haunting, personal, a