Reddit reviews Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America

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• Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America -- from a previous post. Good background. It was published prior to Katrina.
  
  
• 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina -- collection of stories from the Times-Picayune (before they became nola.com)
  
  
• The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist -- author is a civil engineer and looks at the science
  
  
• The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast -- first hand accounts from people on the ground. 700 pages.
  
  These are books that friends and relatives have asked me about which is why I list them. there are many, many more books out there. read some reviews and make up your own mind.

>Second, you're full of shit. I'm asking for proof of the US Federal government taking on projects that are central to the Red Cross' mission that Red Cross will not.

FEMA and similar actions large grew out of the failure of the Red Cross duing the 1927 Mississippi flooding.

I loved Rising Tide by John Barry. It covers the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which resulted in the both the levee system and significant social changes in the south.

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

Link to Rising Tide on Amazon

Ten Indians, fiction

Rising Tide non fiction


El Americano: Fighting with Castro for Cuba's Freedom non-fiction as well, very sad book.


When Money Grew on Trees: The True Tale of a Marijuana Moonshiner and the Outlaw Sheriff of Madison County, Arkansas Poorly written, awesome story, might be fiction, author claims it to be true.

That's just off the top of my head, I don't read much fiction but I recently read a few Carl Hiaasen books, they were fun and a good read.

This book discussed Hoover's role.