Dan Baum





Dan Baum

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Dan Baum has been a staff writer for The New Yorker, for which he covered Hurricane Katrina. He's been a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Wall Street Journal, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He is the author of Citizen Coors: An American Dynasty and Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure. He has written numerous articles for such national magazines as The New York Times Magazine, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and Wired. "


Average rating: 4.14 · 1,570 ratings · 353 reviews · 5 distinct works · Similar authors
Nine Lives: Death and Life ...
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 1,350 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions
Smoke and Mirrors: The War ...
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
Gun Guys: A Road Trip
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2013
Citizen Coors: A Grand Fami...
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
Guns Gone Wild
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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“Other people's children went off to college, which for years Ronald had interpreted as a positive thing. Lately, though, he wasn't so sure. The children who went off to college hardly ever came back. It was as though the hard work of getting that college degree bent them out of shape, focused them too much on their own personal achievement. Once you got that degree, it was all about getting ahead in that monetized struggle, and they forgot the community that raised them. Ooh, live in the Lower Nine; not me. Ooh, do a day's work with your hands; I won't touch that. The neighborhood gained something when one of its children went off to become a doctor or an engineer, but it lost something, too.”
Dan Baum, Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans

“But this home over here: it needed paint but had flowers neatly planted all the way around it. That one over there had a tire swing out front, tied to a fat magnolia tree. Behind another, a lush vegetable garden. You got to fight not to give into despair, he told himself. You got to see the good that's mixed in with the bad.”
Dan Baum, Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans

“That was the point of Mardi Gras, was it not? To serve and honor all the people, to bring into hard lives a touch of royalty and grandeur....To put on a spectacle such as this, free of charge, was an honor. New Orleans was sick and wounded, but no other city in the world had a celebration quite like this. It was beautiful precisely because it was so frivolous.”
Dan Baum, Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans

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