Notable New Orleanians
Author : William Dale Reeves
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 36,78 MB
Release : 2018
Category : New Orleans (La.)
ISBN : 9781944891435
Author : William Dale Reeves
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 36,78 MB
Release : 2018
Category : New Orleans (La.)
ISBN : 9781944891435
Author : WILLIAM D. REEVES
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 2018-04-26
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ISBN : 9781944891480
...a beautiful paperback style book which will present a fascinating narrative describing the people and events that have shaped New Orleans.
Author : Peter M. Wolf
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 28,1 MB
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1669829294
“A remarkable, vivid, and meticulously researched story about an unjustly forgotten major figure of the nineteenth century.” - Nicholas B. Lemann “It’s more than a bio. It’s a way to understand Jewishness, the South, and America.” - Walter Isaacson “Peter Wolf’s The Sugar King is an absorbing ancestral journey.” - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Peter M. Wolf unearths Southern Jewish history in a major new work, with a foreword by Calvin Trillin. A penniless, illiterate, Jewish thirteen-year-old from France crosses the Atlantic alone. Landing in raucous and polyglot New Orleans in 1837, the third largest city in America, he starts out as a peddler of notions to plantations along the Mississippi. He remains unable to read or to write in English or in French his entire life. Nevertheless, by the end of his intrigue-filled life, Leon Godchaux is known as the “Sugar King of Louisiana,” the owner of fourteen plantations, the largest sugar producer in the region and the top taxpayer in the state. He refuses to enter the sugar business until the end of slavery. Unsympathetic to the Lost Cause, caught up in the Civil War, and negotiating Reconstruction and Jim Crow, Godchaux simultaneously builds an esteemed New Orleans clothing empire. Godchaux relies on the accomplishments of two Black men. Joachim Tassin, a slave whose birth status both men conceal, is entwined with Leon Godchaux in his clothing business, and Norbert Rillieux is a free man of color whose overlooked ingenious invention enables Godchaux to build his sugar empire.
Author : Times-Picayune Publishing Corporation
Publisher :
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 1997
Category : New Orleans (La.)
ISBN : 9781575712345
Author : Randy DeCUIR
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 2018-01-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781983464669
Volume One of a three part series. Each volume features one of three centuries of New Orleans Tricentennial.
Author : Richard Scott
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 16,14 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Football
ISBN : 9780963541352
Author : Benjamin Morgan Palmer
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 1870
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Author : Jason Berry
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 22,22 MB
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 146964715X
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.
Author : New Orleans (La.). Citizens
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 1881
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Author : Herlin Riley
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Drum
ISBN : 9780897249218
This book is based on performances and transcriptions from the DCI music videos Herlin Riley: Ragtime & beyond, and Johnny Vidacovich: Street beats modern applications. Additional interviews and essays on: Baby Dodds, Vernel Fournier, Ed Blackwell, James Black and Freddie Kohlman, Smokey Johnson, David Lee, and bassist Bill Huntington.