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

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

524 pages | first published 1997

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In 1927, the Mississippi River swept across an area roughly equal in size to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined, leaving water as deep as thirty feet on the land stretching from Illinois and Missouri south to the Gulf ...
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