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Ari Kelman

Ari Kelman, author of A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans, teaches history at the University of California, Davis.

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  • Silent Witness

    August 23, 2007

    A batch of new books on Hurricane Katrina investigate who is to blame for the tragedy.

2006

  • Unnatural Disaster

    September 14, 2006 Subscribe

    Three new books reappraise the massive earthquake of 1906, which was felt across an area of 400,000 miles and leveled much of San Francisco.

2005

  • In the Shadow of Disaster

    December 14, 2005

    Faced with the challenge of rebuilding, New Orleans seems stuck in the mud--not just mired in the muck caking the city but also trapped by centuries of policy mistakes, especially the fantasy that it can be separated from its surroundings.

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