Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
by John M. Barry
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Author: John M. BarryEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-04-02
ISBN: 0684840022
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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- ISBN13: 9780684840024
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Book Review: A Chance Encounter With a Great Author!
Summary: 5 Stars
I happened across this book at the library, during a very snowy period in Wisconsin last winter. Many thanks to the author, as it is a wonderful book for someone who loves history and a great story. I will never forget it. It really enlightened me as to what factors made up our American history. The events drew my mind to what my grandparent's lives were like in those days. It's not trite to say that this book was riveting, as so few are these days. Very well done!
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Summary of Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
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.
When Mother Nature rages, the physical results are never subtle. Because we cannot contain the weather, we can only react by tabulating the damage in dollar amounts, estimating the number of people left homeless, and laying the plans for rebuilding. But as John M. Barry expertly details in Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, some calamities transform much more than the landscape.
While tracing the history of the nation's most destructive natural disaster, Barry explains how ineptitude and greed helped cause the flood, and how the policies created to deal with the disaster changed the culture of the Mississippi Delta. Existing racial rifts expanded, helping to launch Herbert Hoover into the White House and shifting the political alliances of many blacks in the process. An absorbing account of a little-known, yet monumental event in American history, Rising Tide reveals how human behavior proved more destructive than the swollen river itself.
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