The author of "The Ambition and the Power" now dissects the story behind the great Mississippi River flood of 1927--an untold American epic of money, race, culture, and empire in New Orleans and the Delta, and of one family--the Longs--whose members ruled a state, hunted with presidents, and defeated the Ku Klux Klan. Illustrations.
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The author of "The Ambition and the Power" now dissects the story behind the great Mississippi River flood of 1927--an untold American epic of money, race, culture, and empire in New Orleans and the Delta, and of one family--the Longs--whose members ruled a state, hunted with presidents, and defeated the Ku Klux Klan. Illustrations.
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