Rising Tide
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Rising Tide
| Full title | Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America |
|---|---|
| Author | John M. Barry |
| Published | 1997 |
| Pages | 528 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Barry’s account of the 1927 Mississippi flood — the engineering argument that caused it, the Delta planter order it drowned, and the Black migration and federal expansion that followed. |
Where I heard about it
- The replies to @typesfast — named in the thread asking “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (June 2025), as “Rising Tide by John Barry”; the full set of replies is on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- Migration — The Great Migration the flood accelerated.
- Institutions — The federal response that reset who owns a river.
- History — The form: one disaster as the hinge of a national story.
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.
What links here
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