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Gary Rivlin

Biography

Gary Rivlin

Gary Rivlin, an investigative reporting fellow at The Nation Institute, is a former New York Times reporter and the author of five books, including most recently BROKE, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. -- How the Working Poor Became Big Business. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, GQ and Wired, among other publications.

Gary Rivlin

Books by Gary Rivlin

by Gary Rivlin - Current Affairs, Economics, Nonfiction

More than 10 years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana --- on August 29, 2005 --- journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm’s immediate damage, the city of New Orleans’s efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm’s lasting effects not just on the city’s geography and infrastructure, but on the psychic, racial and social fabric of one of this nation’s great cities.