Rising tide the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America /

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 pe...

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Main Author: Barry, John M., 1947-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Physical Description: 524 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Edition: 1st Touchstone ed.
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