Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
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- ISBN13: 9780684840024
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An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten tale of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known — the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long administrator and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of blacks north, and transformed American society and politics forever.
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.Amazon.com Review
When Mother Scenery rages, the physical results are never devious. Because we cannot contain the weather, we can only react by tabulating the hurt 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 Fantastic 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 clarifies how ineptitude and greed helped cause the flood, and how the policies made 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 small-known, yet monumental event in American history, Rising Tide reveals how human behavior proved more destructive than the inflated river itself.
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This book was so dull that I could not stay awake to read the entire book. Just trying to stay concious was enough of a chore much less understanding the book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The beginning part about Humphreys, Eads, Ellet is a page turner. Anyone ever frustrated by bureacracy will cheer for Eads as he attempts to save the bridge and his jetties. After this, but, the tale starts to sag and was hard to get through.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
John Barry’s book on the flood is a very informative book on the events leading up to and after the fantastic flood of 1927 you would reflect our nation would have been better prepared for a disaster of this magnitude by now i guess barry’s book for me shows how litte things have changed over the years although we cant prevent floods but we can become better prepared , but it all comes down to politics and how much the goverment alots these projects but agreed the recent events of what has happened in the south john barry’s book on the fantastic flood of 1927 is one of the best and more informative on the devastaion a flood can have on the southern states
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
The book was exactly as described. It arrived promptly and was well-packed. I’m a pleased buyer.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I’ve barely dipped into the first chapter of this, plus reading at random to wherever the book fell open, and I’m awed. Barry’s attention to detail and exhaustive documentation of his sources are exemplary. It is also a darn excellent read, and it is his diligence which makes it that way — the principal players stand out like characters in a excellent novel. There was recently a PBS special (I judge it was The American Experience) on the history of New Orleans, and although Barry appeared in it, not nearly enough attention was paid to the 1927 flood, especially to some of the most unsavory aspects such as the machinations of the local power structure. Additional than the pleasure of reading this book, I highly recommend it because we had a replay of this in Katrina with a similar spectacle of greed, insensitivity and incompetence. And if it can take place in New Orleans, it can take place anywhere!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5