Title

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

Creator

John M. Barry

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Creation Date

4-1-1997

Description

Nonfiction by John M. Barry Simon & Schuster (Hardcover, $27.50, ISBN: 0684810468, 4/1997) The author of The Ambition and the Power now dissects the story behind the great Mississippi River flood of 1927―an untold American epic of money, race, culture, and empire in New Orleans and the Delta, and of one family―the Longs―whose members ruled a state, hunted with presidents, and defeated the Ku Klux Klan.

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