Rising Tide
by:
John M. Barry (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780641763625 (064176362X)
ASIN: 684840022
Publish date: April 28th 1998
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Pages no: 422
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Environment,
Nature,
Politics,
American History,
Southern,
United States
This book explains many issues that I never understood from my basic "public-school-history-class-taught-by-a-coach" years. When did blacks defect from the Republican party, the party of Lincoln, and flock to the Democrat party? Why did they do that? When did the federal government first step in ...
This is a fascinating book about the enormous flood that inundated much of the Mississippi basin in 1927. In fact, the flood covered an areas greater than several northeastern states combined. The flood stretched from Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico, and in some places the water was thirty feet dee...
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