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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Edition 001)
by: Timothy Egan

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 978.032
EAN: 9780618773473
ISBN: 0618773479
Label: Mariner Books
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: September 01, 2006
Publisher: Mariner Books
Sales Rank: 742
Studio: Mariner Books

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The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years
of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since.
Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter
of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical
reportage. Following a dozen families and their communities through
the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to
carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the
death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe,
Egan does equal justice to the human characters who become
his heroes, 'the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he
opens up with urgency and respect' (New York Times).

In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst
Hard Time is 'arguably the best nonfiction book yet' (Austin Statesman
Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited
upon our land and a powerful cautionary tale about the dangers of
trifling with nature.

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- The Worst Hard Time
Excellant. I heard about the "Dust Bowl" but never imagined what it really was and how terrible of time in our history. This book really opened my eyes. Hearing the stories from people that survived that time makes me fully appreciate how we have it today.

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- Non-fiction that Reads Like a Novel
What was the worst environmental disaster of the 20th century? Would you believe the over-farming of the southern Great Plains that led to the enormous dust storms of the 1930s? The biggest of these storms on April 14, 1935, which went down in history as "Black Sunday," completely blocked out the sun and contained more tons of dust and dirt than was removed to dig the Panama Canal. All of it airborne - clogging lungs, blinding cattle, burying homesteads, and turning the Great Plains into a lunar crater. Through diary accounts, personal interviews, and newspaper stories, Egan paints a vivid and personal picture of the people and places most affected by this ecological disaster. The book is fascinating - and penetrating. It's hard to imagine why so many people of Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska remained behind on what became a blistering hot patch of dirt. But they did. Egan's account is one of the ... Read More

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- I had no clue
...since I was born in the late 60's yet here in 2008 I wanted to know about the folks that survived during that period of time, how they lived and why it had all happened. Timothy made this real and "touchable" for me. Your heart breaks for these people, it's a very moving tribute. I came away grateful for everything in my life.

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- Dust to Bust
Through the striated layers of heartbreak that Tim Egan exposes in this chronicle of the '30s Dust Bowl, it's hard not to wonder why. Why did a sizeable population gravitate to America's high plains in the first place? Why did so many stay in the face of crushing catastrophe? Could no one see the folly in ripping up millions of square miles of prairie with only the vaguest sense of how how to transform it into arable farmland? This story is less about natural disaster than Greek tragedy. Not a page goes by without an example of hubris so glaring it makes the burgeoning horror seem inevitable.

Egan weaves together the territory's history and the personal stories of its settlers with grim effect, punctuating a terrible irony. For all the strength and decency of the characters profiled here, they are victims of something that could have been avoided. The Dust Bowl was a man made event, the triumph ... Read More

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