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

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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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illustrated w/photographs New York 1998 Trade paperback Very good. No dust jacket as issued.

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Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A. 1998 Large Paperback Good

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1998 Trade Paperback Illustrated. Good. No DJ Issued 528 p. Contains: Illustrations. Includes notes, select bibliography, and index. Spine is smooth; edges of cover are worn. Text is age-discolored at the edges and the front two endpapers have a half-inch tear. No writing in text.

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1998-04-02 Paperback New BRAND NEW COPY, Perfect Shape, Black Remainder Mark On Edge, MH26-607.

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1998 paperback Very Good 0684840022 softcover, light edgewear to cover, otherwise very good.

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Trade Paperback Simon & Schuster 1998. Pencil Mark Bottom Edge. Yellowing. All books in VG or better condition.

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1998 Trade Paperback Good Clean, crisp, bright pages; tight binding. There is a prior owner's inscription on the inside front cover. There is some slight rubbing at the free corners. Faint creasing at the spine head, and some faint rubbing at the spine heel. There are two tiny scratches on the lower spine, but otherwise copy is clean, bright and excellent.

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