Mississippi River Tragedies James A. McDonough or icons that could be

or icons that could be imagined in the mind’s eye and interpreted by diverse publics

Curtis Flowers spent twenty-three years on death row for a murder he did not commit

and political analysts alike

from Louis Armstrong to Bob Dylan

These are the same phenomena that cognitive and social psychologists systematically study

Mississippi River Tragedies James A. McDonough or icons that could beAmerican engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river apart from its floodplain. American law has aided and abetted these feats. But despite our best efforts, so called natural disasters continue to strike the Mississippi basin, as raging