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Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, revisit Tom Piazza's award-winning appraisal of a city in crisis—with a new afterword placing the story of New Orleans in the context of the ongoing threat to America's coastal populations. In the decade since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans, Americans have learned much from the resilience of this proud, battered city. And yet, even as the city has regained some of its lost footing, other regions around the country continue to be battered by hurricanes, snow and ice storms, and massive weather events like Superstorm Sandy, which devastated the mid-Atlantic coast seven years later. Published just months after the storm, Why New Orleans Matters was immediately hailed as a passionate and eloquent celebration of the city as both a cultural center and a home to millions of residents from varied—and sometimes precarious—walks of life. Award-winning author Tom Piazza, a longtime New Orleans...

Who reads Why New Orleans Matters?

Author

Piazza, Tom

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062447425

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Travel, Sociology, History

Rating

3.94 / 5 (40 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14