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

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award...
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by Barry, John M.

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

$44.25
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by Barry, John M.

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

$44.25
Author: John M. Barry
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: John M. Barry
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 04/02/1998
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.24w x 1.35d
ISBN: 9780684840024


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/24/1998 pg. 20
USA Today 09/07/2005 pg. 1

About the Author
John M. Barry is the author of Rising Tide, The Ambition and the Power: A True Story of Washington, and co-author of The Transformed Cell, which has been published in twelve languages. As Washington editor of Dunn's Review, he covered national politics, and he has also written for The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Newsweek, The Washington Post, and Sports Illustrated. He lives in New Orleans and Washington, D
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