[Dixielandjazz] Great Mississippi flood of 1927

[David Richoux]

Hi all,

While researching for this week's show (going to be a lot of the slower 
blues/dirge New Orleans songs) I found this book  - looks to to be very 
interesting:

http://tinyurl.com/9dpnk  RISING TIDE: THE GREAT MISSISSIPPI FLOOD OF 
1927 AND HOW IT CHANGED AMERICA by John M. Barry

> When Mother Nature rages, the physical results are never subtle. 
> Because we cannot contain the weather, we can only react by tabulating 
> the damage in dollar amounts, estimating the number of people left 
> homeless, and laying the plans for rebuilding. But as John M. Barry 
> expertly details in Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 
> and How It Changed America, some calamities transform much more than 
> the landscape.
> While tracing the history of the nation's most destructive natural 
> disaster, Barry explains how ineptitude and greed helped cause the 
> flood, and how the policies created to deal with the disaster changed 
> the culture of the Mississippi Delta. Existing racial rifts expanded, 
> helping to launch Herbert Hoover into the White House and shifting the 
> political alliances of many blacks in the process. An absorbing 
> account of a little-known, yet monumental event in American history, 
> Rising Tide reveals how human behavior proved more destructive than 
> the swollen river itself.



Dave Richoux