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One of the names that will be familiar to anyone who has spent time in New Orleans belongs to a hero of the War of 1812 who was also one of the city’s most famous celebrities during its early years—Jean Lafitte. Lafitte, an early entrepreneur, was a pirate—or as he preferred it, a “privateer.” As such, his career involved an ambiguous relationship between virtue and villainy—and an equally ambiguous relationship with economic development.
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© 2009 William R. Freudenburg, Robert B. Gramling, Shirley B. Laska and Kai T. Erikson
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Freudenburg, W.R., Gramling, R., Laska, S., Erikson, K.T. (2009). The Growth Machine Comes to New Orleans. In: Catastrophe in the Making. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-156-6_4
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