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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America Paperback - 1998
by John M. Barry
"(This) gripping account of the mammoth flooding of 1927 that devastated Mississippi and Louisiana and sent political shock waves to Washington . . . is a brilliant match of scholarship and investigative journalism".--Jason Berry, "Chicago Tribune".
Summary
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.
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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THE VALLEY of the Mississippi River stretches north into Canada and south to the Gulf of Mexico, east from New York and North Carolina and west to Idaho and New Mexico.
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- Title Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
- Author John M. Barry
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Touchstone E
- Pages 528
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
- Date 1998-04-02
- ISBN 9780684840024 / 0684840022
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.24 x 1.35 in (23.52 x 15.85 x 3.43 cm)
- Reading level 1120
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1920's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Deep South
- Cultural Region: Mississippi River Basin
- Cultural Region: South
- Geographic Orientation: Louisiana
- Geographic Orientation: Mississippi
- Library of Congress subjects Percy family, Eads, James Buchanan
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96040077
- Dewey Decimal Code 977.03
Media reviews
T.H. WatkinsThe New York Times Book ReviewExtraordinary...Rising Tide stands not only as a powerful story of disaster but as an accomplished and important social history, magisterial in its scope and fiercely dedicated to unearthing truth.
Citations
- New York Times, 05/24/1998, Page 20
- USA Today, 09/07/2005, Page 1
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