Thanks to Veronica Grossman of  Meryl L. Moss Media Relations, Inc., I am giving away one copy of My New Orleans, Gone Away.

 Book Description:

Growing up in a sixth-generation Jewish family in New Orleans was unlike growing up Jewish anywhere else. A bucolic childhood playing beneath the hanging moss and fishing “across the lake” with his grandfather at Pass Christian, Mississippi obscured the contradictions of Wolf’s life. His family celebrated Christmas, but also founded the city’s leading Reform temple; his parents wanted to ensure propriety, but spent their evenings drinking and gambling; his relatives never spoke of money, but were founders of the leading department store and largest sugar plantation; and he was closer to his housekeeper than his parents.
Blissfully unaware, Peter was reveling in his sultry days at the local day school as class president and tennis champion when his father shipped him deep into chilly Yankee territory to attend Exeter and prepare him for Yale. There, among the well-bred sons of the elite he learned what he needed to know to survive in the Ivy League. As his father predicted, Yale was easy after Exeter and he quickly made three particularly close friends—Henry Geldzahler, Gerald Jonas, and a kid from Kansas City full of snappy patter named Bud, or as he came to be  known professionally, Calvin Trillin.
Wolf’s  evocative journey through the formative years of the 20th century are vividly captured in MY NEW ORLEANS as he recalls his transition from a singular Southern boyhood in the Crescent City to a young man striving for professional independence and self-knowledge. It is an elegy to decades and generations of family turmoil and social change, loss and personal rediscovery.

About Peter M. Wolf:

Peter M. Wolf is a sixth-generation member of a New Orleans family that has been long integral to that city’s culture and commerce. After Yale, Wolf earned a Ph.D. in the history of art and architecture from New York University. Dr. Wolf is a nationally recognized land planning, urban policy and asset management authority. He is the founder of the Thomas Moran Trust; Chairman of the Godchaux-Reserve Plantation Fund; and a trustee in East Hampton of Guild Hall and The Village Preservation Society. His research and writing have been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts; the Ford Foundation; the American Federation of Arts: and a Fulbright Fellowship.


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