The Wealth & Poverty theme co-sponsors, with the Political Science Department, a guest lecture by Gary Rivlin and on Wednesday, April 13, from 7-8:30 p.m. in Walter 135.
Rivlin, former journalist with the New York Times, will speak about his recent book, Katrina: After the Flood. This lecture is part of the endowed James Lecture on Urban Politics series.
Abstract: Most of New Orleans sat under water when journalist Rivlin arrived there as part of the “storm team” the New York Times assembled to cover Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Rivlin, an award-winning journalist, spent the next 10 years chronicling New Orleans’s struggle to overcome a disaster that left 80 percent of the city under water. He tells the amazing story behind the rebuilding of this most beguiling of American cities. Dubbed a “lean, taught narrative” by USA Today, Katrina highlights the grit and tenacity of the every-day people who overcame everything from red-tape to fights with insurance companies to ill-conceived government policies that favored some neighborhoods over others. “The definitive story of Hurricane Katrina,” wrote the Huffington Post; “a magnificently reported account of life in a broken, waterlogged city,” according to Kirkus Reviews: Rivlin’s message is a hopeful one about a city on the brink that, while different than it was before Katrina, is once again an extraordinary, vibrant town.
For more information, contact Dr. Matthew Layton, Assistant Professor of Political Science.
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