Rising Tide
Subtitle: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
Edition: 1st Touchstone Ed edition
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: April 2, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780684840024
Subjects: Modern fiction; United States - 20th Century/20s; History - U.S.; General; History; Natural Disasters; History: American; USA; United States - State & Local - South; Social Science / African-American Studies; Floods; 20th century; Flood control; Mississippi River; Mississippi River Valley
First sentence: THE VALLEY of the Mississippi River stretches north into Canada and south to the Gulf of Mexico, east from New York and North Carolina and west to Idaho and New Mexico.