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

from amazon:

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.

(found at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/3RPPSE8Z75VPR/)

Send to Printer Douglas Brinkley's "10 Books to Read on New Orleans" from amazon: 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. (found at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/3RPPSE8Z75VPR/)
	1.	The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas Brinkley
	2.	Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry
	3.	Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (Da Capo Paperback) by Louis Armstrong
	4.	A Walk on the Wild Side: A Novel by Nelson Algren
	5.	The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld by Chris Wiltz
	6.	A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book) by John Kennedy Toole
	7.	The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
	8.	Prime: A Novel by Poppy Z. Brite
	9.	New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City by Andrei Codrescu
	10.	Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans by Jed Horne
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