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Rising Tide
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Rising Tide Softcover - 1998

by Barry

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"(This) gripping account of the mammoth flooding of 1927 that devastated Mississippi and Louisiana and sent political shock waves to Washington . . . is a brilliant match of scholarship and investigative journalism".--Jason Berry, "Chicago Tribune".

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A touchstone book, USA, 1998. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Used very good, Text appears to be clean. Cover has some wear. Spine is in very good condition. Pencil marking on back inside cover, 524 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Education; ISBN: 0684840022. ISBN/EAN: 9780684840024. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561022972. . 9780684840024
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Details

  • Title Rising Tide
  • Author Barry
  • Binding Softcover
  • Edition Edition Unstated
  • Condition Used - Very Good Condition
  • Pages 528
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher A touchstone book, USA
  • Date 1998
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1561022972
  • ISBN 9780684840024 / 0684840022
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.24 x 1.35 in (23.52 x 15.85 x 3.43 cm)
  • Reading level 1120
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1920's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: Mississippi River Basin
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Geographic Orientation: Louisiana
    • Geographic Orientation: Mississippi
  • Library of Congress subjects Percy family, Eads, James Buchanan
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96040077
  • Dewey Decimal Code 977.03

Summary

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 people, helped elect Huey Long governor 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.

First line

THE VALLEY of the Mississippi River stretches north into Canada and south to the Gulf of Mexico, east from New York and North Carolina and west to Idaho and New Mexico.

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Media reviews

T.H. WatkinsThe New York Times Book ReviewExtraordinary...Rising Tide stands not only as a powerful story of disaster but as an accomplished and important social history, magisterial in its scope and fiercely dedicated to unearthing truth.

Citations

  • New York Times, 05/24/1998, Page 20
  • USA Today, 09/07/2005, Page 1

About the author

John M. Barry is the author of Rising Tide, The Ambition and the Power: A True Story of Washington, and co-author of The Transformed Cell, which has been published in twelve languages. As Washington editor of Dunn's Review, he covered national politics, and he has also written for The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Newsweek, The Washington Post, and Sports Illustrated. He lives in New Orleans and Washington, D

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