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05696cam a2201105 a 4500 001 DC2B94D42AF211DEBA18F106A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20240220011609 008 961126s1997 nyuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 96040077 020 $a 9780684810461 020 $a 0684810468 020 $a 0684840022 (pbk.) 020 $a 9780684840024 035 $a (OCoLC)36029662 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d NLGGC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCG $d UAB $d IOT $d SILO 043 $a n-usm-- 050 00 $a F354 $b .B47 1997 082 00 $a 977/.03 $2 21 100 1 $a Barry, John M., $d 1947- 245 1 $a Rising tide : $b the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America / $c John M. Barry. 260 $a New York : $b Simon & Schuster, $c c1997. 300 $a 524 p. : $b ill., map ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-496) and index. 520 $a In 1927, the Mississippi River swept across an area roughly equal in size to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined, leaving water as deep as thirty feet on the land stretching from Illinois and Missouri south to the Gulf of Mexico. Close to a million people - in a nation of 120 million - were forced out of their homes. Some estimates place the death toll in the thousands. The Red Cross fed nearly 700,000 refugees for months. Rising Tide is the story of this forgotten event, the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known. But it is not simply a tale of disaster. The flood transformed part of the nation and had a major cultural and political impact on the rest. Rising Tide is an American epic about science, race, honor, politics, and society. 520 8 $a Rising Tide begins in the nineteenth century, when the first serious attempts to control the river began. The story focuses on engineers James Eads and Andrew Humphreys, who hated each other. Out of the collision of their personalities and their theories came a compromise river policy that would lead to the disaster of the 1927 flood yet would also allow the cultivation of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta and create wealth and aristocracy, as well as a whole culture. In the end, the flood had indeed changed the face of America, leading to the most comprehensive legislation the government had ever enacted, touching the entire Mississippi valley from Pennsylvania to Montana. In its aftermath was laid the foundation for the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt. 650 0 $a Floods $z Mississippi River Valley $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Flood control $z Mississippi River $x History. 651 0 $a Mississippi River Valley $x History $y 1865- 600 10 $a Humphreys, A. 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