CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. INTRODUCTION 1
4. PART I
5. 1. How to Sink New Orleans: Controlling Floods, Oil, and States’ Rights, 1927–1965 19
6. 2. Help!: Hurricane Betsy and the Politics of Disaster in the Lower Ninth Ward, 1965–1967 44
7. 3. The New New Orleans: Louisiana Grows and Shrinks, 1967–2005 69
8. PART II
9. 4. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?: Hurricane Katrina, August–September 2005 113
10. 5. Rebuilding the Land of Dreams: 2005–2015 138
11. Epilogue:The End of Empire, Louisiana 181
12. NOTES 199
13. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 265
14. INDEX 269