Bibliograph

City of a million dreams, a history of New Orleans at year 300, Jason Berry

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City of a million dreams, a history of New Orleans at year 300, Jason Berry

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

City of a million dreams

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1029441309

Responsibility statement

Jason Berry

Sub title

a history of New Orleans at year 300

Summary

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

Table Of 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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