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

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1998 Trade paperback Lavishly illustrated with historic b&w photographs. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. FINE+++Looks like an unread copy with good clean, bright, tight pages. no ink markings. Minor Pencill Underlining and notes inside back cover. (slight shelf wear) Trade paperback (US). 524 p. Index. THE VALLEY of the Mississippi River stretches north into Canada and south to the Gulf of Mexico, east from New York and North Carolina and west to Idaho and New Mexico. From Library Journal In the spring of 1927, America witnessed perhaps its greatest natural disaster: a flood that profoundly changed race relations, government, and society in the Mississippi River valley region. Barry (The Transformed Cell, LJ 9/1/92) presents here a fascinating social history of the effects of the massive flood. More than 30 feet of water stood over land inhabited by nearly one million people. Almost 300, 000 African Americans were forced to live in refugee camps for months. Many people, both black

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524 pp., illus., map, biblio., index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. 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 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. / John M. Barry is the author of The Ambition and the Power coauthor of The Transformed Cell, and a frequent contributor to national magazines. He lives in New Orleans and Washington, D.C." - Publisher.

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Illustrated with Photographs New York 1998 Paper 4th Paperback Edition Fine in Trade Paperback. No Dustjacket 6 x 9" A solid copy; ----------SATISFACTION GUARANTEED---------FAST, COURTEOUS SERVICE------

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1998 Trade Paperback 8th Printing Good Pages slightly toned. Includes section of black & white photographs. "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. "

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