Caroline Dreyfous, daughter of Felix and Julia Dreyfous married Leon Weiss (died 1953), son of Theordore Weiss and Lena Silverstein. Lena was the daughter of Lazarus and Sarah Silverstein. Theodore was born in Ingwiller, Alsace, and left there with his parents, Solomon and Adelle, to settle in Louisiana. Felix Dreyfous was the son of Abel Dreyfous and Caroline Kaufman. Abel (died 1892) was born in Belfort, Alsace, son of Emanuel and Rose Dreyfous....

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into an unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. In the days after the storm, Abdulrahman traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared--arrested and accused of being an agent of Al-Qaeda.

"An authoritative biography of the second-highest-ranking and most controversial Confederate general, who rejoined the Union after the Civil War, advising other Confederate soldiers to put that war behind them. After joining an interracial government in New Orleans, Longstreet fought against white supremacists when they attacked these postwar elected officials, for which he was vilified and attacked by other Southerners, and blamed for the South's...

"An examination of the history of the author's family and its ties to white supremacist movements."--