The French Quarter
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780891760283 (0891760288)
Publisher: R Bemis Pub
Pages no: 342
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Reference,
Cultural,
American,
Mystery,
Crime,
Southern,
True Crime,
France,
Research
This is a breezy, well-written, non-academic history of the French Quarter and New Orleans generally -- literary equivalent perhaps to the best of the city's tourist tours. It is full of charming and outrageous anecdotes of all kinds and colorful characters from madames to politicians to thugs. Du...
This is a lengthy, but interesting and often entertaining book about the history of New Orleans' underworld. The author takes us from the 17th Century up to what was, for him, the present day of the 1930s with anecdotes, data, and even newspaper reproductions to show us what life was like during the...
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