Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award

A sweeping account of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and the devastating disaster that reshaped American politics, accelerated the Great Migration, and exposed the South’s deep racial and economic inequalities.

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 Gre...