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Rising Tide- The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America Deluxe Author Company: Simon - Schuster Category:
Rising Tide- The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America Deluxe 5 stars (Of Man and the River) - If you thought Hurricane Katrina packed a ... File Size: 8.95 kB OS: Windows 98 / NT / 2000 / ME / XP / VISTA License: Paperback - Time Limit, free to try, 10.55 to buy. Software Developed by Simon - Schuster Download now (8.95 kB) Click to buy with discount via Amazon (10.55$) Description : Rising Tide- The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America - 5 stars (Of Man and the River) - If you thou 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. This is the Paperback version. The full version can be purchased by clicking on the "Buy Now" button below for around $10.55 USD. Click to buy with discount via Amazon      |