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Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
— published 2009 — 6 editions |
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Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure
— published 1996 — 2 editions |
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Gun Guys: A Road Trip
— published 2013 |
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Citizen Coors: A Grand Family Saga of Business, Politics, and Beer
— published 2000 — 2 editions |
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Guns Gone Wild
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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
― 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
― 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
― Dan Baum, Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
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