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

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Book Review: a story of the flood, but not the aftermath
Summary: 4 Stars

Summary of 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 and the Lillian Smith Award.

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.

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