Douglas Brinkley's "10 Books to Read on New Orleans"

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Stephen Ambrose described Douglas Brinkley as "the best of the new generation of American historians," and he has quickly become one of the most prolific and wide-ranging interpreters of the American past, writing bestselling accounts of everything from the founder of the Knights of Columbus to John Kerry’s tour in Vietnam, editing the letters of Hunter S. Thompson and the journals of Jack Kerouac, and recounting, in ‘The Majic Bus," the road-trip-for-college-credit he led through the hip and historical landmarks of the U.S.A.

He has most recently been a professor of history at Tulane University in New Orleans, and he begins his list of the 10 books to read on New Orleans with a description of his own latest book, one of the first authoritative accounts of the disastrous Hurricane Katrina, whose terrible destruction he witnessed first-hand.

  1. 3.
    Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (Da Capo Paperback)
    by Louis Armstrong

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  2. 4.
    A Walk on the Wild Side: A Novel
    by Nelson Algren

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  3. 5.
    The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld
    by Chris Wiltz

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  4. 6.
    A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book)
    by John Kennedy Toole

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  5. 7.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy

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  6. 8.
    Prime: A Novel
    by Poppy Z. Brite

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Created by g on Jun 14, 2007.
 

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