The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

This National Book Award-winning story, a tour de force of historical reportage, rescues an iconic chapter of...
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Author: Timothy Egan
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Egan, Timothy

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

$217.24

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

$217.24
Author: Timothy Egan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
This National Book Award-winning story, a tour de force of historical reportage, rescues an iconic chapter of American history--the Dust Bowl that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression--from the shadows.

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.

Author: Timothy Egan
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 09/01/2006
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780618773473
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/08/2006 pg. 36

About the Author
Egan, Timothy: - TIMOTHY EGAN is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and the author of eight other books, most recently The Immortal Irishman, a New York Times bestseller. His book on the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard Time, won a National Book Award for nonfiction. His account of photographer Edward Curtis, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, won the Carnegie Medal for nonfiction. He writes a biweekly opinion column for the New York Times.

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