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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
by Lawrence N. Powell
This deeply researched history of New Orleans manages to describe how a French fever dream hooked Canadian explorers, Native Americans, European prisoners and migrants, and enslaved Africans into creating a unique society at a bend in the Mississippi River. It’s a fascinating story, full of rogues and bandits as well as the woefully mistreated, and Powell keeps interest high with easy to read language in a scholarly tome.