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Author:	John M. Barry	Format:	--
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster	ISBN-10:	0684840022
ISBN-13:	9780684840024	Educational Level:	--
Product Type:	--	Publication Year:	--
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Condition:	Good

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Historian John M. Barry dramatically reconstructs a key chapter in American history as he recalls the devastating 1927 flood that caused widespread destruction in Louisiana and Mississippi and throughout the region. In April of that year, after weeks of rain, the Mississippi River overflowed its banks. Over a million people were affected as homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed, communities were devastated, and there was a great loss of life. After several months, the waters receded, but there were long-term political, social, and historical consequences. John M. Barry, who is from the region, dramatically recalls those events, analyzing their causes and effects. He tells how local politics and a rivalry between two engineers--Andrew Atkinson Humphreys of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and James Eads--played perhaps as significant a role as nature in what occurred. Barry provides a lucid account of the complex scientific issues involved, deftly explains local politics and personalities, and analyzes how the aftershocks of the 1927 flooding rippled far beyond its time and far beyond Louisiana. It is said that the flood was responsible for electing Hoover over Coolidge, and that it contributed to the shift of African-American voters to the Democratic Party. It also was a significant factor in the migration of African Americans to northern cities, and set a precedent for large-scale intervention by federal government, which was followed a few years later by the New Deal. THE RISING TIDE provides many lessons, and reminds us that those who do not heed the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
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Length:	524 pages
Height:	9.3 in.
Width:	6.3 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	20.8 oz.

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"(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".
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"'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. What the book doesn't do, doesn't intend to do, is to give us much reason to think that humans are ever going to control the river for any length of time (as the floods of 1993 demonstrated once again). The river's power is too great and our dreaming too small..." New York Times Book Review - T. H. Watkins (04/13/1997) "A highly original and absorbing book...brilliantly recaptures the panic, desperation, and suffering of one of the greatest natural disasters in American history." Advertisement. - David Herbert Donald "Not only does Barry provide a marvelous chronicle of the world's greatest flood since Noah, he also meticulously mines the residue of its wake for both the relics of a society washed away and the roots of a new one spawned." Los Angeles Times Book Review - Jim Squires (04/06/1997)

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Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0684840022
Title : Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
Authors : John M. Barry
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Publication Date : 1998-04-02
Pages : 528
List Price (MSRP) : 17.00
Height : 1.3500 inches
Width : 6.2400 inches
Length : 9.2600 inches
Weight : 1.3600 pounds
Keywords : History: Americas: United States: General, All Titles, Contemporary, African-American Studies, Natural Disasters, South, Paperback
Condition : Good

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