Rising Tide The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

There's a fascinating book called Rising Tide. There's a lot of books called Rising Tide. But there's a Rising Tide that analyzes the impact of Joe Namath on the University of Alabama's racial segregation history. And its premise, and it makes a lot of sense to me, is Joe Namath came from this small integrated steel mill town. He was the coolest guy on campus by far. It was not cool to be racist around Joe Namath.

And this would have been right around at the time sometime between 10 and 11 years ago that I read one of the best books of narrative nonfiction that I've ever read. Rising tide, The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and how it changed America by John Embary which I read and totally changed how I saw New Orleans, so I saw the Mississippi River, which I did not know that much about being from California.

And most of all, it turned me on to Walker Percy and his kind of Southern stoicism turned me on to one of my all-time favorite novels which would be The Movie Goer which I recommend all the time.

You absolutely have to read them, we carry both of them here at the painted porch but they probably make great audio books to sit down and read them, they are incredible books.