Hope & New Orleans: A History of Crescent City Street Names

New Orleans is a city of
beautiful contradictions, evidenced by its street names. New Orleans crosses with
Hope, Pleasure and Duels. Religious couples with Nuns, Market and Race. Music,
Arts and Painters are parallel. New Orleans enfolds its denizens in the
protection of saints, the artistry of Muses and the bravery of military
leaders. The city's street names are inseparable from its diverse history. They
serve as guideposts as well as a narrative that braid its pride, wit and
seedier history into a complex web that to this day simultaneously joins and
shows the cracks within the city. Learn about Bourbon's royal lineage, the magnitude
of Napoleon's influence, how Tchoupitoulas's history is just as long and vexing
as its spelling and why mispronouncing such streets as Burgundy, Calliope and
Socrates doesn't mean you are incorrect—it just means you are local! Told with
precision and photos as vibrant, irreverent and memorable as La Nouvelle
Orleans itself, author Sally Asher delivers an updated and reinvented look at
the city that care forgot.