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Berry, Jason, author.
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New Orleans (La.) -- History.
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City of a million dreams : a history of New Orleans at year 300 / Jason Berry.
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Berry, Jason, author.
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Subjects
New Orleans (La.) -- History.
ISBN:
9781469647142 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1469647141 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
Description:
412 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
In the hum of a b-flat city -- Bienville: journey into the interior -- St. Maló in the memory rings -- The great fire and procession for Carlos III -- City of migrants -- Claiborne: a city embattled -- Pirates, black soldiers, and the war under Jackson -- The builder and the priest -- The burial master: times of yellow fever and war -- The time of jazz -- Sicilians in the meld -- Mother Catherine and the lower Ninth Ward -- Sister Gertrude Morgan: running for the city -- The last days of Danny Barker -- Dr. Michael White and the widow's wail -- After the flood.
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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.
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