Rising tide : the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America

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Rising tide : the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America / John M. Barry.

Barry, John M., 1947- (Author).

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An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of blacks north, and transformed American society and politics forever. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.

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ISBN: 0684840022
ISBN: 9780684840024
Physical Description: 524 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Edition: First paperback edition.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1998, �1997.

Content descriptions

General Note:: "A Touchstone book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-496) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Prologue -- Part 1: The Engineers -- Part 2: Senator Percy -- Part 3: The River -- Part 4: The Club -- Chapter 5: The Great Humanitarian -- Chapter 6: The Son -- Chapter 7: The Club -- Chapter 8: The Great Humanitarian -- Chapter 9: The Leaving of the Waters -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments and Methodology -- Index.

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Subject:: Floods > Mississippi River Valley > History > 20th century.
Flood control > Mississippi River > History.
Mississippi River Valley > History > 1865-
Humphreys, A. A. (Andrew Atkinson), 1810-1883.
Eads, James Buchanan, 1820-1887.
Percy family.

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