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City of a Million Dreams - A History of New Orleans at Year 300 (Paperback)
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City of a Million Dreams - A History of New Orleans at Year 300 (Paperback)
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List price R694
Loot Price R587
Discovery Miles 5 870
You Save R107 (15%)
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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. Berry
orchestrates a parade of vibrant personalities, from the founder
Bienville, a warrior emblazoned with snake tattoos; to Governor
William C. C. Claiborne, General Andrew Jackson, and Pere Antoine,
an influential priest and secret agent of the Inquisition; Sister
Gertrude Morgan, a street evangelist and visionary artist of the
1960s; and Michael White, the famous clarinetist who remade his
life after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina. The textured
profiles of this extraordinary cast furnish a dramatic narrative of
the beloved city, famous the world over for mysterious rituals as
people dance when they bury their dead.
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