@RTMannJr Anybody who thinks we tamed the Mississippi needs to read RISING TIDE by John M. Barry.

@amyjccuddy Rising Tide by John Barry We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow, We Will Be Killed With Our Families, by Philip Gourevich King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild Between the World and Me by Ta Nehisi Coates The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by @radleybalko

@bhillin0324 Some other ones I’d consider: “Hurricane Watch,” by Bob Sheets (good history of hurricanes) “A Furious Sky,” by Eric Jay Dolin (accessible history/meteorological account of hurricanes) “Rising Tide,” by John Barry talks about how the 1927 Mississippi flood impacted America.