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

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1998-04-02 Paperback Very Good First Touchstone Edition-Stated. Simon & Schuster. Trade Paperback. America witnessed perhaps its greatest natural disaster: a flood that profoundly changed race relations, government, and society in the Mississippi River valley region.

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Fine; Collectible Pbk 1997. Great condition. Appears unread. No marks/underlines/highlights. Pages are clean and tight. Crease on front cover. Whiteout mark inside front cover. Minor shelfwear. Free deliver confirmation. ! Satisfaction guaranteed!

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Very Good. Paperback. 12th printing softcover 1998 Touchstone / Simon and Schuster. REMAINDER MARK on bottom page edge. Light store shelfwear: tiny creases to corners. Text clean and unmarked; pages bright; binding tight, unread. 524 pages; Index; Notes; Bibliography; black-and-white photos; map. Language: English. 'The devastating Mississippi flood of 1927 certainly wrought changes in the U.S. on many levels: demographic (more than 1, 000 died, over 900, 000 were left homeless, and millions of African Americans migrated North); political (Huey Long was elected governor and Hoover president); governmental (the flood inspired New Deal-type policies as the federal government moved to stabilize the disaster); and societal (the plantation aristocracy was wiped out). Barry has fashioned an epic from this dramatic historic incident, beginning with the two egomanical engineers, James Buchanan Eads and Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, whose personal conflict over the river muddied, indeed, the system to control it,

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Brand new item. Over 6 million customers served. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Few left in stock - order soon. Code: U20091116145426G

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1998 Trade paperback Illustrated. New. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 528 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. (This) gripping account of the mammoth flooding of 1927 that devastated Mississippi and Louisiana and sent political shock waves to Washington...is a brilliant match of scholarship and investigative journalism. --Jason Berry, Chicago Tribune. 'Rising Tide' stands not only as a powerful story of disaster but as an accomplished and important social history,

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New York 1998 Soft Cover Tall octavo. 524 pages. Illustrated with 16 pages of photographic reproductions. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Bookplate of the Literary Alliance of New Orleans, else a near-fine copy.

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1998 Trade paperback Illustrated. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. read once, very near new, how things change Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 528 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.

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