Catastrophe in the Making pp 55-66 | Cite as
The Growth Machine Comes to New Orleans
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Abstract
One of the names that will be familiar to anyone who has spent time in New Orleans belongs to a hero of the War of 1812 who was also one of the city’s most famous celebrities during its early years—Jean Lafitte. Lafitte, an early entrepreneur, was a pirate—or as he preferred it, a “privateer.” As such, his career involved an ambiguous relationship between virtue and villainy—and an equally ambiguous relationship with economic development.
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© William R. Freudenburg, Robert B. Gramling, Shirley B. Laska and Kai T. Erikson 2009