by Gary Rivlin
New Orleans Saints, 184, 297–98, 319, 330, 355, 358–60, 414
New Orleans Tribune, 76, 94, 243, 254–56, 313, 329–30, 336, 364, 391
New York, 46, 71, 90, 131, 138, 167, 185, 223, 298–99, 306, 332, 334, 390, 396
Nagin’s criticism of, 286–87
rebuilding in, 133, 293, 317, 323
New York Times, xiii–xv, 35, 107, 119, 125n, 198, 205–6, 223, 246, 248, 276, 291, 293, 326, 358, 360, 366–67
Blakely and, 318–19
rebuilding and, 187, 219
Nguyen, Vien The, 283, 360
Ninth Ward, 40, 102, 117, 120, 137, 232, 254, 260, 276–77
Upper, 8, 236, 272, 308, 399, 417
see also Lower Ninth Ward
Nixon, Richard, 23, 337
Nossiter, Adam, 293, 318–19
NPR, 40, 300
nuclear attacks, 36–37
Nuisance Lot Maintenance, 387
Obama, Barack, 112n, 372, 384, 391, 416
New Orleans visits of, 341, 369
presidential campaigns of, 323, 341
rebuilding and, 323–24
O’Brien, Soledad, 72, 185
O’Dwyer, Ashton, 56–57
oil and gas industry, 151–52, 222, 272, 311–12, 394, 400
O’Keefe, Michael Hanley, 147
Old Metairie, La., 87, 134–35, 172
Olshansky, Robert B., 167n
1 Dead in Attic (Rose), 184
Orleans Avenue Canal, 27, 125n
Orleans Parish, La., 14, 16, 252, 257, 295, 386
education and, xv, 52, 77–79, 109, 155, 164–66, 307, 366–67, 387
Ortique, Miriam, 25, 344
Ortique, Revius, Jr., 23–25, 148, 344–45
Osborne, Tonja, 162
Ouroussoff, Nicolai, 291
Packer, Dan, 115, 127, 173
Nagin and, 72–73, 86, 114
rebuilding and, 159, 168, 193
Pam, Hurricane, 38–39, 41
Parker, Carolyn, 214
Park Island, 23–24, 344–45, 378, 389
Patton, Anthony, 293
Patton Boggs, 156–57
Paul, Sharon, 5, 8–9, 12
Paulison, R. David, 258
Payton, Sean, 297–98
Pelley, Scott, 71, 200, 237
Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund, 276
Pepper, Thom, 374, 378
Perez, Leander, 77–78
Perry, James, 379n
Perry, J. Stephen, 65, 138
Petrie, Al, 176, 235, 267, 311, 343
Phelps, Ashton, Jr., 80–81, 386
Pierce, Wendell, 383
Pilié, Monique, 409
Pitt, Brad, 376
home of, 332, 374
Lower Ninth Ward and, 305–6, 332–34, 340, 373–75, 412
Pitts, Byron, 286
Plessy v. Ferguson, 76
Police Department, N.O. (NOPD), xiv–xv, 2–8, 44, 51, 100, 110, 150, 257–58, 291, 327, 331, 341, 404
absenteeism in, 41, 122
alleged violence and, 128–29
boats and, 61–62
emergency calls received by, 42–43
evacuations and, 5–8, 10–11, 14, 17–18, 54, 274
gun confiscations of, 127–28
Hill and, 54–55
and increase in crime, 300–301
Lakeview and, 261, 264, 266
Landrieu and, 362–63, 385, 391–93, 416
looting and, 129–30
Lower Ninth Ward and, 272–73, 307
Nagin and, 70–71, 114
rebuilding and, 159, 161, 177, 229, 334
repopulation and, 121n, 122
Serpas selection and, 362, 392–93
shutting Crescent City Connection and, 14, 17
Pontchartrain Park, 226, 334, 383, 402
Port of New Orleans, 183–84, 292
Powell, Donald, 193, 221–22, 253
Poydras Street, 20, 134, 172, 209, 218, 281, 405
Pratt, Renée Gill, 330n
Prejean, Helen, 273
Price, James, 16
Project Impact, 37
Quant, Ted, 397
Quigley, Bill, 291
Quinn, Patrick, 66
Rahim, Malik (Donald Guyton), 271–77, 305, 374
community activism of, 272–77
Lower Ninth Ward and, 271–73, 276–77, 351, 375
rebuilding and, 271–72, 275–77, 351
Randolph, Cathey, 380
Ratcliff, Mary, 275
Ray, Ricky, 125n
Reconstruction, 76, 79, 240
Recovery Authority, La. (LRA), 144, 166, 218, 222, 253, 268, 282, 298, 312
Recovery School District, 166, 306–7
Red Cross, 120, 173, 203, 276
Redevelopment Authority, N.O. (NORA), 318, 343
Regional Transit Authority, N.O. (RTA), 1–12
and buses and streetcars, 192, 398–99
evacuations and, 4–12, 194, 295
rebuilding and, 159–60, 229–30, 334
Reiss and, 58, 73, 85, 260–61
Reid, Harry, 295, 390
Reilly, Sean, 218, 222, 253
Reiss, Jimmy, 57–59, 151, 172, 234, 354, 368, 405
crime and, 58–59, 85–86
Major and, 260–61
Nagin and, 58, 73, 81, 85–87, 101, 136, 245, 254, 261, 288
rebuilding and, 57, 59, 86–87, 133, 136, 168
RTA and, 58, 73, 85, 260–61
Republicans, xiii, 45–46, 53, 105–11, 156–57, 161, 165, 189, 250–53, 255, 288, 340, 361, 390
Barbour and, 45, 110–11, 205
Canizaro and, 135–36
criticisms of, 294–95
FEMA and, 36–37
Louisiana governorship and, 105, 111
public housing and, 191, 193
rebuilding and, 200–201, 205, 221, 250–51
Rove’s strategy and, 107, 111
”Return to Splendor, A” (Kabacoff), 395
Richmond, Cedric, 165
Ridgley, Gwendolyn, 387–88
Riggio, Len, 333–34
Riley, Warren J., 130, 300–301, 337
Rita, Hurricane, 116–17, 120, 124, 293, 312, 326, 335
cost of, 116, 164, 199
flooding and, 2–3, 5
Road Home, 225, 230, 325, 342, 369, 408
administration of, 312–14, 329
insurance companies and, 222, 281, 284, 303, 311–13, 333, 347, 371–72, 379, 387
Lakeview and, 311, 343
Lower Ninth Ward and, 329, 333, 348, 351
rebuilding and, 222–23, 281, 282n, 284, 311, 329, 333, 348, 351–52, 372, 379–81
Roberts, Chris, 10
Robertson, Campbell, 358
Robichaux, Gerald, 2–5, 8, 11
Robichaux, Jacques, 192
Robinette, Garland, 45, 162
Rockefeller Foundation, 269–70, 280, 298, 319, 333–34
Rodin, Judith, 269
Rose, Chris, 167, 178, 184, 232, 259–60
Rouselle, Bill, 148, 150
Rove, Karl, xvi, 35–36, 48n, 105, 107–11, 324
rebuilding and, 87, 133, 166, 208–9
Royal, Karran Harper, 399
Rumsfeld, Donald, 34, 42
Russell, Gordon, 287, 339, 385
Russert, Tim, 109–10, 287
Ruth, Mary Ann, 9–10
St. Augustine, 180–81, 232
St. Bernard Parish, La., 38, 78, 118, 203, 301–2, 375, 387, 401–2
lawsuits and, 358, 366
St. Charles Avenue, xvi, 50, 57, 66, 76, 91, 96, 136, 159, 172–73, 184, 229, 246, 259–60, 317, 399
Mardi Gras and, 79, 234–35
party atmosphere along, 55–56
St. Claude Avenue, 203, 388, 410
St. Gabriel, La., 126–27
St. Martin, Marcia, 125–26, 159
St. Paul, 295–96, 309, 344, 378, 409
Sandy, Superstorm, 389–90
Santi, Linda, 122
Sanyika, Mtangulizi, 214
/> Schleifstein, Mark, 387
Schwartz, John, 125n
Scineaux–Richard, Sylvia, 403
Seed, Raymond, 259
September 11 attacks, 37, 133, 185, 223, 258, 293, 299, 317, 323, 432
Serpas, Ronal, 362, 392–93, 416
Seventeenth Street Canal, 26–27, 135
breaching of, 33, 43, 47–48, 48n, 108, 110, 116, 162, 294
Seventh Ward, 68, 152, 281
McDonald and, 146, 225, 372, 402
Nagin and, 73–74
Sewerage and Water Board, N.O., 124–26
sewers, xiv, 65, 121, 159, 163, 192, 275, 289, 322, 385, 405
Sharky, Bruce, 178
Shaw Group, 219
Shea, Carey, 298–99, 319, 333–34
Shell, 233, 235, 258, 292
Sheraton Hotel, xiv–xv, 138, 170–74, 209, 213, 220
Bring New Orleans Back Commission and, 158–59, 167–68, 214–16
Nagin and, 170–71, 199
repopulation and, 123–24
60 Minutes, 71, 200, 237, 286
Slade, John, 362, 365, 387, 392–93, 416
Slan, Mack, 99–100
slaves, slavery, 75–76, 272
sliver by the river, 182–83, 254
Sloan, Terry, 331
Slonsky, Lorrie Beth, 17–19
Smith, Shepard, 118
Southern Institute for Education and Research, 49, 51, 53
Stafford Act, 160, 321, 323–24
Stanton, Janet, 336
Stephens, Ruben, 5–8, 11
Stewart, Jon, 389
Stone Age, 338–39, 389, 414
Strock, Carl, 259
subprime loans, 346, 373
suicides, 259–60, 293, 368
Superdome, 15, 20, 33–34, 39, 65, 232, 242, 264, 388
alleged violence in, 70–71, 128
damage to, 6, 44, 71
evacuations and, xiv, 2, 6, 40–41, 48, 70, 120, 196
Nagin and, 44, 48, 70–71
people stranded in, xvi, 13, 17, 40, 43
return of football to, 297–98
Supreme Court, La., 23, 388n
Supreme Court, U.S., 23, 76, 238, 388n
Team Louisiana, 195, 259
Thomas, Jeff, 321–22, 335
Thomas, Oliver, 19, 129, 173, 238, 325, 330–31, 418–19
Lower Ninth Ward and, 169, 270–71, 324
Nagin and, 83–84, 245
rebuilding and, 166–67, 169, 199, 324
Thompson, A. C., 274n
Thornton, Denise, 264–65, 271
Thornton, Doug, 264
Times-Picayune, 23, 49, 56–57, 77, 80–82, 123, 134, 151, 167, 178, 205, 232–33, 245, 247, 255, 259–61, 280–81, 284, 287, 289, 315, 319, 337, 339, 353, 355, 368, 385–87, 389, 395–96, 412, 418
Lakeview and, 407–8
mental health and, 259–60
rebuilding and, 176, 184, 213, 219, 253, 323, 333
violence and, 128n, 301
Today, 64, 71, 333, 389
Tolbert, Eric, 38
Townsend, Dominique, 197
transportation, transportation workers, 173, 319, 367
air and, 17–18, 123, 192, 197, 199, 232
boats and, 4, 11–13, 19, 27–28, 30, 39, 53, 61–62, 109, 129, 140, 249, 263, 324
and buses and streetcars, xiv, 1–4, 6–9, 12–13, 15–18, 41, 43–45, 48, 58, 66, 70, 76, 103, 109, 119–20, 122, 159–60, 184, 192, 196, 199, 229–30, 260, 299, 350, 355, 388, 398–99
and roads and traffic, xiii–xiv, 2–7, 13, 15, 18–19, 22, 25, 27, 32, 50, 54–55, 61, 91, 95, 97–100, 104, 139–40, 159, 180, 184, 186, 204, 232, 265, 280–81, 285, 290, 292, 295, 303, 334, 336, 338, 357, 365, 370, 384–85, 388, 390–91, 403, 410, 412
shutting Crescent City Connection and, 14–15
trains and, 76, 110, 122, 192, 229, 355
Tremé, 75, 91, 233, 240, 279, 369, 394, 396, 404
Tyson, Ann Scott, 129n
Uddo, Connie, 295–96, 308–12, 372
Gentilly and, 343–44, 378–81, 409
Lakeview and, 261–65, 271, 308–9, 379–80, 409, 416–17
Landrieu and, 363, 390
rebuilding and, 309, 311–12, 342–44, 378–80
Road Home and, 314, 379, 408
Uddo, Mark, 261–64, 309–10, 342, 390, 417
United New Orleans Plan (UNOP), 269–70, 280, 319–21, 334
Uptown, 2–3, 58, 99, 129, 151–52, 171, 181–82, 189, 230, 246, 248, 254, 259, 287–88, 301, 308, 324, 361, 373, 396, 404
damage in, 65–66
evacuations and, 20, 54
Hill and, 50–51
housing in, 8, 93, 96
McDonalds and, 145–48
Nagin’s chocolate city remark and, 242–43
rebuilding and, 131, 136–37, 176, 215
repopulation and, 121, 123
restoring power to, 115, 123
and returning to Lakeview, 261, 263
Walls and, 95, 181
wealth in, 79–80
Urban Land Institute (ULI), 168–69, 171–72, 174–78, 200, 208, 211, 216, 225, 239, 299, 343, 371
van Heerden, Ivor, 117–18, 195, 254
Vaughn, Lawrence, 16–17
Vietnam War, 51, 272, 314, 381
Vinson, Scott, 12–13
Vitter, David, 34, 46
Waiters, Bill, 376
Walker, Donna, 155
Wall, Cassandra, 95–100, 162, 216, 390
homes of, 202, 231–32, 282–83
New Orleans East and, 95–97, 202, 230–31, 405–6, 408
rebuilding and, 176, 230–31, 282, 284–85, 407
and returning to New Orleans, 181–82, 230–32, 282, 284, 407
sisters of, 96–100, 176–77, 179–82, 230–31, 282–83, 313, 346–47, 402, 405–7
son of, 182, 283, 347–48, 406
Wall, Contesse, 162, 216
evacuations and, 98–99
New Orleans East and, 97–98, 100
rebuilding and, 283–86
and returning to New Orleans, 284–85, 406–7
Wall, Daisy, 181, 282, 346–47
Wall, Talmadge “Petie,” 97–100, 162, 216, 405–7
on Baton Rouge, 179–81
New Orleans East and, 97–98, 100, 181, 402, 405–6
rebuilding and, 177, 283–84, 286
and returning to New Orleans, 181–83, 230
Wall, Tangeyon “Tangee,” 96–100, 162, 216, 406–7
housing and, 230, 283, 403
New Orleans East and, 96–97, 100, 402, 406
rebuilding and, 283–85
and returning to New Orleans, 181–83, 283, 285
Wall Street Journal, 57, 73, 86, 103, 113, 136, 315
Warehouse District, xvi, 65, 181, 210, 230, 283
Washington, Tracie, 238
Washington Post, 37, 110–11, 129n, 244, 248, 366–67
water, water system, xiv, 12, 16–18, 22, 34, 43, 114–15, 185, 192, 275, 385, 405
Canal Street barn and, 1–3
Convention Center and, 40, 48, 54–55, 129
in Gretna, 9, 11, 14, 16
rebuilding and, 162–63, 202–3
repopulation and, 115, 121
restoration of, 65, 289
and returning to New Orleans, 264–65
Waters, Maxine, 252, 314, 369
Watson, Tom, 255
WBOK, 79, 328, 336, 362, 364–65, 387, 392, 416, 418
West, Kanye, 106–7
West Bank, 16, 18, 115, 125, 159, 182, 192, 233, 273
evacuations and, 4–5, 7, 12, 14
housing in, 273–75, 277
Liberty in, 152, 155
rebuilding and, 162–63
White, David, 81, 132–33, 136, 186, 216–17, 288, 339
Whitmer, Charles, 14
Whitney Bank, 58, 68
Willard-Lewis, Cynthia, 176, 270, 331, 390–91
Williams, Rodney, 414
Wilson, Peggy, 252–53
Winfrey, Oprah, 70–71, 128, 3
99
Witt, James Lee, 36–37, 109
Womack, Cane, 339
Wood, A. Baldwin, 90–91, 125
WWL, 44–45, 162, 353
Yoder, Freddy:
Lakeview and, 162–63, 176, 214, 235, 266–68, 309–10, 408
rebuilding and, 162–63, 176–77, 214, 235
York, Smedes, 174–75
Young, Hilda, 307, 375
Zaheri, Becky, 276
Zeno, Reggie, 160
Zurik, Lee, 353–54
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