Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

John M. Barry

528 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

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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. T...

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