City of a Million Dreams A History of New Orleans at Year 300 1st Edition by Jason Berry ISBN 1469647141 9781469647142

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ISBN 10: 1469647141

ISBN 13: 9781469647142

Author: Jason Berry

 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.

Table of contents: 

Prologue: IN THE HUM OF A B-FLAT CITY

1. Bienville: JOURNEY INTO THE INTERIOR

2. St. Maló in the Memory Rings

3. The Great Fire and Procession for Carlos III

4. City of Migrants

5. Claiborne: A CITY EMBATTLED

6. Pirates, Black Soldiers, and the War under Jackson

7. The Builder and the Priest

8. The Burial Master: TIMES OF YELLOW FEVER AND WAR

9. The Time of Jazz

10. Sicilians in the Meld

11. Mother Catherine and the Lower Ninth Ward

12. Sister Gertrude Morgan: RUNNING FOR THE CITY

13. The Last Days of Danny Barker

14. Dr. Michael White and the Widow’s Wail

15. After the Flood

Galleries of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Back Matter

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