Part I. How to sink New Orleans : controlling floods, oil, and states' rights, 1927-1965
Hurricane Betsy and the politics of disaster in the Lower Ninth Ward, 1965-1967
Louisiana grows and shrinks, 1967-2005
Part II. Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?
Hurricane Katrina, August-September 2005
Rebuilding the land of dreams : 2005-2015
Epilogue: The end of empire, Louisiana.