TITLE

Understanding why the city is the way it is adds perspective to criticisms

AUTHOR(S)

Laborde, Errol

PUB. DATE

March 1994

SOURCE

New Orleans CityBusiness (1994 to 2008);3/7/94, Vol. 14 Issue 35, p5

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports on the need for critics to study the social and political history of New Orleans, Louisiana to get a better perspective. Critics' lack of understanding; New Orleans' history of violence and poverty; Machine politics' dominance of New Orleans; Buster Holmes' death; Holmes' reputation as a restaurateur.

ACCESSION #

9410111219

 

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