The Ends Of The Earth - Plaquemines Parish Louisiana
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✎ Suggest a correctionDescribes Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, located at the end of therich Mississippi River delta, as a 50-year fiefdom of political boss Judge Leander Perez. Names the parish population as a polyglot mixture of blacks, Creoles, Cajuns, poor whites and foreign immigrants too ignorant and insecure to challenge Judge Perez' autocratic rule and personal enrichment from public oil revenues. Shows a colorful world of unique beauty as well as Southern politics at a local level.
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