John M. Barry

Rising Tide (eBook, ePUB)

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781416563327
• Artikelnr.: 37872740

Autorenporträt

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.C.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Prologue 13
Part One: THE ENGINEERS 19
Chapter One 21
Chapter Two 32
Chapter Three 46
Chapter Four 55
Chapter Five 67
Chapter Six 78
Part Two: SENATOR PERCY 93
Chapter Seven 95
Chapter Eight 107
Chapter Nine 122
Chapter Ten 132
Chapter Eleven 143
Chapter Twelve 156
Part Three: THE RIVER 169
Chapter Thirteen 173
Chapter Fourteen 179
Chapter Fifteen 190
Chapter Sixteen 202
Part Four: THE CLUB 211
Chapter Seventeen 213
Chapter Eighteen 222
Chapter Nineteen 234
Chapter Twenty 245
Part Five: THE GREAT HUMANITARIAN 259
Chapter Twenty-One 261
Chapter Twenty-Two 272
Chapter Twenty-Three 282
Part Six: THE SON 291
Chapter Twenty-Four 293
Chapter Twenty-Five 303
Chapter Twenty-Six 318
Chapter Twenty-Seven 324
Part Seven: THE CLUB 337
Chapter Twenty-Eight 339
Chapter Twenty-Nine 344
Chapter Thirty 352
Part Eight: THE GREAT HUMANITARIAN 361
Chapter Thirty-One 363
Chapter Thirty-TwO 378
Chapter Thirty-Three 387
Part Nine: THE LEAVING OF THE WATERS 397
Chapter Thirty-Four 399
Chapter Thirty-Five 412
Appendix:
The River Today 423
Notes 427
Bibliography 481
Acknowledgments and Methodology 497
Index 501