false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358675m/49376.jpg 49376 6 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 <I>Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America,</I> some calamities transform much more than the landscape. <P> 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, <I>Rising Tide</I> reveals how human behavior proved more destructive than the swollen river itself. 48295 1997 Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America total:386|5:157|4:160|3:51|2:14|1:4| 386 1610 624 100 5 0 false false Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 08:23:55 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 11:10:03 -0700 2009
Barry first tells the story of two men who tried to direct policy on how to...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 18:37:21 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 18:44:29 -0800 2009
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Barry discusses the Mississippi River from multiple po...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 11:35:23 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 02 08:13:47 -0700 2007 This is a great history of engineering efforts on the Mississippi, culminating in the flood, and continuing into the relief effort (coordinated by then-Secretary of Commerce H...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 09 21:09:39 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 20:39:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 01 14:23:14 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 14:25:41 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 08:46:35 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 08:55:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Sun Jun 21 19:35:01 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 19:38:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 05 12:06:40 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 11:57:31 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 09:01:57 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 10:38:03 -0700 2008
Great story about what happenned that year on the mississippi. There is a great map near the middle of the book that showed how large the area of flooded land was. Thing friggin flooded out ~ 75 miles on both sides of the river all the way up to the Ohio and down most of the way to...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Mon Apr 27 09:46:54 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 09:51:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Apr 25 12:15:32 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 25 12:23:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 19 20:56:40 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 21:02:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 16 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jul 31 06:13:40 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 06:25:35 -0700 2008
Rising Tide covers more than just the engineering of flood defences and what happened with the water, but rather looks int...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 18:39:08 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 10:03:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 07 09:25:46 -0800 2007 Wed Mar 19 09:04:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 21:39:32 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 21:40:27 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=49376