Author:
Berry, Jason, author.
Imprint:2018
Note:In the hum of a b-flat city -- Bienville: journey into the interior -- St. Malô 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.
Note:Published to coincide with the city's tricentennial, a character-driven history of New Orleans chronicles cycles of intervention, struggle, death and rebirth, revealing the city's survival as a triumph of diversity.
