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Rising Tide: Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 by John M. Barry

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Rising Tide: Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, April 1998
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RISING TIDE: GREAT MISSISSIPPI FLOOD OF 1927
By: John M. Barry

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.

Simon and Schuster
April 1998
528 pages
ISBN: 0684840022
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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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