Pauline Baird Jones

Forget everything you learned in school-this isn't a history book. This is a shot of bourbon with a powdered sugar chaser. A jazz-soaked, roux-stirred, crime-tinged love letter to the most beautifully chaotic city in America. In these fast, funny pages, you'll meet pirates who became patriots, aristocrats who partied like rockstars, and nuns who smuggled matchmaking into the colonies (seriously). You'll wade through swamps of scandal, shimmy down music's back alleys, and eat your way through a city that lives to feed you.
Perfect for curious wanderers, armchair adventurers, and anyone who's ever dreamed of getting lost in New Orleans. This isn't the sanitized version-it's the soulful, sinful, spicy one. And once you're in. well, good luck ever wanting to leave.