In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments.
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..
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.
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Berry orchestrates a parade of vibrant personalities, from the founder Bienville, a warrior emblazoned with snake tattoos; to Governor William C.
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.
In City of a Million Dreams, Jason Berry delivers a character-driven History of New Orleans at its tricentennial.
The scene captured the History and culture of the City in microcosm--a City legendary for its noisy, complicated, tradition-rich splendor.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians, and everyday people.
In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments
