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Zusatztext T.H. Watkins The New York Times Book Review Extraordinary... 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 truth. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "(This) gripping account of the mammoth flooding of 1927 that devastated Mississippi and Louisiana and sent political shock waves to Washington . . . is a brilliant match of scholarship and investigative journalism".--Jason Berry, "Chicago Tribune". Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsPrologue 13Part One: THE ENGINEERS 19Chapter One 21Chapter Two 32Chapter Three 46Chapter Four 55Chapter Five 67Chapter Six 78Part Two: SENATOR PERCY 93Chapter Seven 95Chapter Eight 107Chapter Nine 122Chapter Ten 132Chapter Eleven 143Chapter Twelve 156Part Three: THE RIVER 169Chapter Thirteen 173Chapter Fourteen 179Chapter Fifteen 190Chapter Sixteen 202Part Four: THE CLUB 211Chapter Seventeen 213Chapter Eighteen 222Chapter Nineteen 234Chapter Twenty 245Part Five: THE GREAT HUMANITARIAN 259Chapter Twenty-One 261Chapter Twenty-Two 272Chapter Twenty-Three 282Part Six: THE SON 291Chapter Twenty-Four 293Chapter Twenty-Five 303Chapter Twenty-Six 318Chapter Twenty-Seven 324Part Seven: THE CLUB 337Chapter Twenty-Eight 339Chapter Twenty-Nine 344Chapter Thirty 352Part Eight: THE GREAT HUMANITARIAN 361Chapter Thirty-One 363Chapter Thirty-TwO 378Chapter Thirty-Three 387Part Nine: THE LEAVING OF THE WATERS 397Chapter Thirty-Four 399Chapter Thirty-Five 412Appendix:The River Today 423Notes 427Bibliography 481Acknowledgments and Methodology 497Index 501...
