Madame Vieux Carré The French Quarter in the Twentieth Century (Audible Audio Edition) Scott S Ellis Kirk O Winkler University Press Audiobooks Books
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Celebrated in media and myth, New Orleans's French Quarter (Vieux Carré) was the original settlement of what became the city of New Orleans. In Madame Vieux Carré, Scott S. Ellis presents the social and political history of this famous district as it evolved from 1900 through the beginning of the 21st century.
From the immigrants of the 1910s, to the preservationists of the 1930s, to the nightclub workers and owners of the 1950s and the urban revivalists of the 1990s, Madame Vieux Carré examines the many different people who have called the Quarter home, who have defined its character, and who have fought to keep it from being overwhelmed by tourism's neon and kitsch.
The old French village took on different roles - bastion of the French Creoles, Italian immigrant slum, honky-tonk enclave, literary incubator, working-class community, and tourist playground. The Quarter has been a place of refuge for various groups before they became mainstream Americans.
Although the Vieux Carré has been marketed as a free-wheeling, boozy tourist concept, it exists on many levels for many groups, some with competing agendas. Madame Vieux Carré looks, with unromanticized frankness, at these groups, their intentions, and the future of the South's most historic and famous neighborhood. The author, a former Quarter resident, combines five years of research, personal experience, and unique interviews to weave a history of one of America's favorite neighborhoods.
Madame Vieux Carré The French Quarter in the Twentieth Century (Audible Audio Edition) Scott S Ellis Kirk O Winkler University Press Audiobooks Books
This book gives an interesting history of the French Quarter for both locals and visitors--particularly relating to some of the early preservationists whose names I had heard but didn't know anything about. New Orleans politics as it relates to the Quarter is also covered extensively, which is always interesting. I'm giving it three stars instead of five because the writing is frequently repetitive and there were some minor inaccuracies that should have been easily spotted during proofreading or editing.Product details
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Madame Vieux Carré The French Quarter in the Twentieth Century (Audible Audio Edition) Scott S Ellis Kirk O Winkler University Press Audiobooks Books Reviews
Engrossing and engaging read of a fascinating sibject
I was born and raised in New Orleans but spent most of my adult life in New York, returning to New Orleans in 1999 to retire.
So the book filled in the gaps of what happened in my before I was born and and while I was absent.
Being from north Louisiana and only visiting New Orleans once in a while, I found this book about the French Quarter to be really informative and insightful. Having read fiction centered in the Quarter, this book helped me understand the development of the area, the politics and "characters". I read it through the first time and recently I have gone back to the book to re-read areas of special interest. I encourage anyone with an interest in the French Quarter or New Orleans in general to pick up this interesting book. It is obvious a lot of research went into it...and Love!
I always approach films and books that use New Orleans as a setting prepared to be disappointed. The great majority of the time the preparation was not in vain. Scott Ellis's book on a place I lived in for several years and still love is not a disappointment, it is the opposite. Scott has brought together the careful research, flawlessly flowing narrative and love and compassion for this unique space in America that has been missing. To read it is to hear the family stories of past generations for the first time, including the ones no one ever wanted to talk about but all the more interesting for that. Thank you, Mr. Ellis. We are proud to claim you as friend and family.
Good book. Covers a lot of usable facts
With the advent of the excellent HBO series Treme (which you should check out), there is a renewed interest in the Vieux Carre. The Katrina Disaster was ( and remains) outrageous, but this book wisely focuses on the prior history of everyone's favorite unique city. This book isn't exactly a tour book, but instead captures the flavor of the Quarter as only a frequent visitor or resident can. I lived in New Orleans for over twenty years and still love to visit as often as possible.
This is the type book you would want to read if you were considering a long visit or trying to remember a vacation. Some may quibble about a minor fact or two (were there automobiles in the Quarter in the first decades of the last century?) Yes, and Ellis' book doesn't say otherwise as far as I can tell), but this book remains a wonderful and memorable read.
I should note that Ellis used me as a source on a couple of points, but that doesn't prejudice my view. This is a well researched, atmospheric read that all should enjoy.
Madame Vieux Carre is a great book and a rich history of the French Quarter. The author gives wonderful details about a city that never should have been; location, poverty, and politics all work against New Orleans and yet the city thrives. The first part of the book introduces the reader to a Vieux Carre that is almost fully formed into the idea many people have of it today, but gives the history and meaning as to why the people of the Quarter and New Orleans as a whole reacted to events in the way that they did. It informs of a time and of a culture that nurtured Falkner and Tennessee Williams later. It removes some of the mystery behind the Quarter, but reveals that the truth is so much more interesting.
The second part pulls a little bit away from the people and focuses more on the politics; which is why I'm giving this book 4 stars. I was so enthralled with the history and the people that I was disappointed the author shifted gears to the dirty politics that engulf the Quarter because there was nothing new to learn, states that have only one big city always suffers greed and corruption to keep everyone else afloat. For people just visiting New Orleans today the politics do help answer questions one might have about the "way of things", I also never knew anyone would seriously consider putting an expressway and exit ramp right up against the Vieux Carre, score one for local politics.
All in all a good read, but be warned lay-man history buffs, a third of the book is bibliography so you're not getting full a history as you might think.
This book gives an interesting history of the French Quarter for both locals and visitors--particularly relating to some of the early preservationists whose names I had heard but didn't know anything about. New Orleans politics as it relates to the Quarter is also covered extensively, which is always interesting. I'm giving it three stars instead of five because the writing is frequently repetitive and there were some minor inaccuracies that should have been easily spotted during proofreading or editing.
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