Under a Hoodoo Moon is one of rock's most original and infectious autobiographies. In its pages, Dr. John, the alchemist of New Orleans psychedelic funk, tells his story, and what a story it is: of four decades on the road, on the charts, in and out of trouble, but always steeped in the piano-based soulful grind […]

Contributor(s): Wiltz, Christine (Author)

Contributor(s):�Perez, Frank�(Author) ,�Fieseler, Robert W�(Foreword by) "During Mardi Gras 1973, Stewart Butler fell in love with Alfred Doolittle-a wealthy socialite and schizophrenic from San Francisco. Their relationship was an improbable love story that changed the course of LGBTQ history. With Doolittle's money, Butler was able to retire and devote his life to political activism in […]

Contributor(s): Long, Carolyn Morrow (Author) Carolyn Morrow Long is a research associate at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

Contributor(s): Brouillette, Frenchy (Author), Randazzo V, Matthew (Author) Wiseguys called him "The Keith Richards of the American Mafia," and JFK hero Jim Garrison denounced him as "one of the most notorious vice operators in the history of New Orleans."--But you can just call him Mr. New Orleans. This book tells the incredible story of Frenchy Brouillette, a redneck Cajun teenager who stole his big brother's motorcycle and embarked on a 60-year vacation to New Orleans, where he became a legendary gangster and the underworld political fixer for his cousin, Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards.

Contributor(s): Long, Carolyn Morrow (Author) Annotation: "Long disentangles the threads of fact and legend that have intertwined over the decades. Was Madame Lalaurie a sadistic abuser? Mentally ill? Or merely the victim of an unfair and sensationalist press? Using ... eyewitness testimony, archival documents, and family letters, Long recounts Lalaurie's life from legal troubles before the fire through the scandal of her exile to France to her death in Paris in 1849."

Contributor(s): Chick, Sean Michael (Author) Few Civil War generals attracted as much debate and controversy as Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard. He combined brilliance and charisma with arrogance and histrionics. Sean Michael Chick explores a life of contradictions and dreams unrealized–the first real hero of the Confederacy who sometimes proved to be his own worst enemy. […]

"Bienville's Dilemma" presents sixty-eight articles on the historical geography of New Orleans.