Kent B Germany

New Orleans After the Promises

Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the 1960s and 1970s, New Orleans experienced one of the greatest transformations in its history. This book looks back at that era to explore how a few thousand locals tried to bring the Great Society to Dixie. It offers a detailed portrait of the complex city that developed after its last epic reconstruction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Georgia Press
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780820329000
• ISBN-10: 0820329002
• Artikelnr.: 21558439

Autorenporträt

Kent B. Germany, a native of Louisiana and former resident of New Orleans, is Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina. Previously he was Deputy Director of the Presidential Recordings Program and director of the LBJ Project at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs. He is co-host of "For The Record," a PBS program on politics and history, and is coeditor of two books about Lyndon Johnson and the 1960s: "The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power" and "Toward the Great Society."