Scott Cowen – “The Inevitable City”

For all of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the storm after the storm was what really brought New Orleans to the brink of oblivion. Government incompetence, police brutality and racial tensions all threatened to wipe out what little was left in Katrina’s wake. Scott Cowen, president of Tulane University, recounts his efforts to rebuild Tulane and New Orleans in his new book, “The Inevitable City: The Resurgence of New Orleans and the Future of Urban America”.