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In 1927, the Mississippi River swept across an area roughly equal in size to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined. It left water as deep as 30 feet on the land for up to four months. Close to a million people--in a nation of 120 million--lived in the flooded territory, which began in Illinois and Missouri and stretched south to the Gulf of Mexico. It was the greatest natural disaster the country has ever known. But this is not just a disaster tale, it's an American epic of interconnected stories that depicts the flow of American culture at a critical time in our nation's history. Soon to be a miniseries by Hallmark Entertainment. "Publishers Weekly" named "Rising Tide" one of the best books of 1997. Simultaneous with the Touchstone trade paperback.

"'Rising Tide' stands not only as a powerful story of disaster but as an accomplished and important social history, magisterial in its scope and fiercely dedicated to unearthing truth. What the book doesn't do, doesn't intend to do, is to give us much reason to think that humans are ever going to control the river for any length of time (as the floods of 1993 demonstrated once again). The river's power is too great and our dreaming too small..."

T. H. Watkins, New York Times Book Review, 04/13/1997

"Not only does Barry provide a marvelous chronicle of the world's greatest flood since Noah, he also meticulously mines the residue of its wake for both the relics of a society washed away and the roots of a new one spawned."

David Herbert Donald

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