When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri by David Todd Lawrence

When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri

David Todd Lawrence

224 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective slow-paced

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Winner of the 2019 Chicago Folklore PrizeIn 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, one of the flood prevention mechanisms of the Mississippi...

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