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Title: Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 And How It Changed America
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Subject: History, Science & Technology
Publication Year: 1998 Topic: General, US: State & Local, Earth Science
Language: English Author: John M. Barry
ISBN-10: 0684840022 Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780684840024 ISBN: 9780684840024

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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 area, 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 that was followed a few years later by the New Deal. THE RISING TIDE reminds us that those who do not heed the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

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Publication Date1998-04-02
LanguageEnglish
PublisherSimon & Schuster

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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., Provides an account of one of the greatest national disasters the United States has ever experienced and its consequences

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