ASDSO Quarterly Book Club - Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America

The ASDSO Quarterly Book Club is an ongoing review of books that may be pertinent to ASDSO membership. New or old, the hope is to share a reading list and promote lifelong learning in the dam/levee safety industry.

Dams are intrinsically linked with levees. If you want to understand levees and levee policy in the U.S., you need to study the Mississippi River. No flood had a greater impact on levee and water policy than the flood of 1927. And no book outlines that history more expertly than John Barry’s Rising Tide.