The Flood Year 1927

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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- ONE Modern Overflow -- DISASTER'S PUBLIC -- TWO A Northern Army of Relief -- THREE Cross Talk in the Press -- FOUR Bessie's Eclogue -- FIVE Catastrophe Comes to Vaudeville -- MODERNISM WITHIN A SECOND NATURE -- SIX William Faulkner and the Machine Age Watershed -- SEVEN Richard Wright: Environment, Media, and Race -- Conclusion: Noah's Kin -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Permissions Acknowledgments -- Index