John M. Barry is the author of Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America , published this spring by Simon & Schuster, from which this article is adapted.
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Summer 1997
WHEN MUD AND SANDBARS were choking off the Mississippi— America’s highway—from the ocean, James Buchanan Eads had the solution. But to implement it, he had to overcome an adversary even more implacably hostile than the river itself: the Army Corps of Engineers. Read >>
Winter 1997
WHEN MUD AND SANDBARS were choking off the Mississippi— America’s highway—from the ocean, James Buchanan Eads had the solution. But to implement it, he had to overcome an adversary even more implacably hostile than the river itself: the Army Corps of Engineers. Read >>
