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Amazon.com Review When Mother Nature rages, the physical results are never subtle. Because we cannot contain the weather, we can only react by tabulating the damage in dollar amounts, estimating the number of people left homeless, and laying the plans for rebuilding. But as John M. Barry expertly details in Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, some calamities transform much more than the landscape. While tracing the history of the nation's most destructive natural disaster, Barry explains how ineptitude and greed helped cause the flood, and how the policies created to deal with the disaster changed the culture of the Mississippi Delta. Existing racial rifts expanded, helping to launch Herbert Hoover into the White House and shifting the political alliances of many blacks in the process. An absorbing account of a little-known, yet monumental event in American history, Rising Tide reveals how human behavior proved more destructive than the swollen river itself. 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

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

Author

Barry, John M.

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780684840024

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Social Science

Rating

4.21 / 5 (3,420 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14