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Michael P

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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 & How It Changed America
by John Barry
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"An account of the Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America. When the river flooded, it was possible to travel in a boat, east to west in the South, two hundred miles. The book is an account of how engineers had tried to control the... (read more)

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