History is written by the powerful and the articulate. Chris Rose, a columnist for New Orleans' Times-Picayune, has painted a powerful and articulate historical landscape in his book 1 Dead in Attic. His canvas is post-Katrina New Orleans. His palette is the absurdities and horrors of [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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