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Item specifics
- Condition
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780684840024
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
0684840022
ISBN-13
9780684840024
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1048728
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rising Tide : the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
Number of Pages
528 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Topic
United States / State & Local / General, Natural Disasters, United States / 20th Century, Civil Rights, Civil / Flood Control, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
18.7 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
96-040077
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
Tom WickerThis is the kind of history I love -- the brilliantly told story of the great Mississippi floodof 1927, a disaster for millions but the making of a future president and a turning pointfor the nation., T.H. WatkinsThe New York Times Book ReviewExtraordinary... 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., T.H. Watkins The New York Times Book Review Extraordinary... 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., Tom Wicker This is the kind of history I love -- the brilliantly told story of the great Mississippi flood of 1927, a disaster for millions but the making of a future president and a turning point for the nation., T.H. WatkinsThe New York Times Book ReviewExtraordinary...Rising Tidestands 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.
Dewey Decimal
977/.03
Table Of Content
Contents Prologue 13 Part One: THE ENGINEERS 19 Chapter One 21 Chapter Two 32 Chapter Three 46 Chapter Four 55 Chapter Five 67 Chapter Six 78 Part Two: SENATOR PERCY 93 Chapter Seven 95 Chapter Eight 107 Chapter Nine 122 Chapter Ten 132 Chapter Eleven 143 Chapter Twelve 156 Part Three: THE RIVER 169 Chapter Thirteen 173 Chapter Fourteen 179 Chapter Fifteen 190 Chapter Sixteen 202 Part Four: THE CLUB 211 Chapter Seventeen 213 Chapter Eighteen 222 Chapter Nineteen 234 Chapter Twenty 245 Part Five: THE GREAT HUMANITARIAN 259 Chapter Twenty-One 261 Chapter Twenty-Two 272 Chapter Twenty-Three 282 Part Six: THE SON 291 Chapter Twenty-Four 293 Chapter Twenty-Five 303 Chapter Twenty-Six 318 Chapter Twenty-Seven 324 Part Seven: THE CLUB 337 Chapter Twenty-Eight 339 Chapter Twenty-Nine 344 Chapter Thirty 352 Part Eight: THE GREAT HUMANITARIAN 361 Chapter Thirty-One 363 Chapter Thirty-TwO 378 Chapter Thirty-Three 387 Part Nine: THE LEAVING OF THE WATERS 397 Chapter Thirty-Four 399 Chapter Thirty-Five 412 Appendix: The River Today 423 Notes 427 Bibliography 481 Acknowledgments and Methodology 497 Index 501
Synopsis
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., A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award. 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 Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of almost one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of African Americans north, and transformed American society and politics forever. The flood brought with it a human storm: white and black collided, honor and money collided, regional and national powers collided. New Orleans's elite used their power to divert the flood to those without political connections, power, or wealth, while causing Black sharecroppers to abandon their land to flee up north. The states were unprepared for this disaster and failed to support the Black community. The racial divides only widened when a white officer killed a Black man for refusing to return to work on levee repairs after a sleepless night of work. In the powerful prose of Rising Tide , John M. Barry removes any remaining veil that there had been equality in the South. This flood not only left millions of people ruined, but further emphasized the racial inequality that have continued even to this day.
LC Classification Number
F354
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