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  • Rising Tide

  • The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
  • By: John M. Barry
  • Narrated by: Barry Grizzard
  • Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins

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Rising Tide

By: John M. Barry
Narrated by: Barry Grizzard
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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.
©1997 John M. Barry (P)1998 Simon & Schuster Inc. All rights reserved. AUDIOWORKS is an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division.
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  • Categories: History

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"It is a gripping narrative...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 the truth." (The New York Times Book Review)

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