Download PDF by Patrick O'Daniel: Memphis and the Superflood of 1937: High Water Blues

By Patrick O'Daniel

the best flood in usa heritage struck the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys in January 1937. maybe no unmarried flood within the usa had triggered as a lot harm, displayed as a lot brutal common strength and displaced as many of us. now not even the calamitous flood of 1927, which has eclipsed the '37 flood by way of historic assurance used to be as large. writer and Memphis neighborhood Patrick O'Daniel illustrates how this nationwide ordinary catastrophe affected Memphis, specifically, and the way the politicians of the day, from nationwide figures like FDR to neighborhood political bosses like Ed Crump, dealt with remarkable infrastructural demanding situations. but past politics and coverage, O'Daniel tells the tale of this ancient catastrophe in the course of the eyes of daily Memphians, their struggles, deal with millions of determined refugees and the measures they took to save lots of their urban from this devastating flood.

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