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The Thousand-year Flood
David Welky
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Description for The Thousand-year Flood
Hardcover. In the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. By the time the waters crested, the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died, while a million more had run from their homes. This is a history of one of the most destructive disasters in American history. Num Pages: 384 pages, 18 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; 1KBBSM; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; RNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 653.
In the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters crested, the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died, while a million more had run from their homes. The deluge caused more than half a billion dollars of damage at a time when the Great Depression still battered the nation. Timed to coincide with the flood's seventy-fifth anniversary, "The Thousand-Year Flood" is the first comprehensive history of one of the most destructive disasters in American history. David Welky ... Read more
In the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters crested, the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died, while a million more had run from their homes. The deluge caused more than half a billion dollars of damage at a time when the Great Depression still battered the nation. Timed to coincide with the flood's seventy-fifth anniversary, "The Thousand-Year Flood" is the first comprehensive history of one of the most destructive disasters in American history. David Welky ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226887166
SKU
V9780226887166
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About David Welky
David Welky is associate professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas and the author of Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression and The Moguls and the Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II.
Reviews for The Thousand-year Flood
"David Welky has done a prodigious job of reminding us about the horror inflicted by the Ohio-Mississippi flood of 1937. At its heart, The Thousand-Year Flood is a Great Depression story not unlike the Dust Bowl tragedy. His scholarship is impeccable. Highly recommended!" (Douglas Brinkley, author of The Great Deluge)"