Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918 ... - Anthony J. Stanonis - Google Books

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Between the World Wars, New Orleans transformed its image from that of a corrupt and sullied port of call into that of a national tourist destination. Anthony J. Stanonis tells how boosters and politicians reinvented the city to build a modern mass tourism…