Jason Berry. Univ. of North Carolina, $35 (424p) ISBN 978-1-4696-4714-2
Berry (Lead Us Not into Temptation) delivers an evocative, character-driven narrative history of New Orleans, highlighting its multiculturalism, love of spectacle, and resilience through fires, floods, and wars. In a detailed, novelistic style,...
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Jason Berry, Author, Andrew M. Greeley, Foreword by Doubleday Books $22.5 (407p) ISBN 978-0-385-42436-3
In a shocking, graphic expose, New Orleans journalist Berry documents scores of cases of sexual abuse of boys by Roman Catholic priests across the U.S. Tracking this tragic story from Louisiana to Washington, D.C., and then to New York, Berry...
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Jason Berry, Author, Gerald Renner, Author Free Press $26 (353p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4441-1
This impassioned expose explores the history of priestly pedophilia scandals, and their roots in what the authors portray as the Church's blinkered sexual mores and arrogant hierarchy, through profiles of two emblematic Church figures. The first is...
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Jason Berry, Author, Tad Jones, Author, Jonathan Foose, Author University of Georgia Press $35 (285p) ISBN 978-0-8203-0853-1
New Orleans has always been a city of music and divergent cultures, where aristocratic French and Spanish colonists, working-class Irish and the African slave culture combined to produce a charismatic musical tradition. The authors begin their...
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