City of a million dreams
a histor y of New Orleans at year 300
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Author
Publication
2018 - The University of North Carolina Press, North Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
103,000 words, Guess
Page Count
412 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101469647141
- ISBN-139781469647142
- Library of Congress Control Number2018020837
- OCLC Control Number1029441309
- Better World Books9781469647142
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL26976380M
Classifications
- DDC976.3/35
- LCCF379.N557 B47 2018
- LCCF379.N557B47 2018
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 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.
Subjects
Places
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