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

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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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-09-2009; I Am So Thankful Egan Wrote This Book; Egan's extensive research and attention-holding writing style presents the personal suffering and strength of the people of the great plains, and the ecological catastrophe of this era, in a way that kept me riveted. An avid reader, I am...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-07-2009; "Can't-put-it-down-History"; Said Walter Cronkite in one of the book's blurbs, and I found it to be true. Riveting. My only complaint is that I would have liked to have read more detail about the daily life of these people. What did they do, day-to-day, besides...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-04-2009; Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz; Wow, I love American history and I love farming. But this is one of the most boring books I have muddled through in a long, long time. He developed the setting very well and built the characters so that the reader would know them...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-02-2009; Absoultely fascinating; History comes alive in this book about little known (to me at least) event in American history. The author has obviously done his research and manages to make this interesting, where in lesser hands it could have been a boring...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-09-2009; I Am So Thankful Egan Wrote This Book; Egan's extensive research and attention-holding writing style presents the personal suffering and strength of the people of the great plains, and the ecological catastrophe of this era, in a way that kept me riveted. An avid reader, I am...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-06-2009; A subject better served in novel form.; There wasn't enough here for a book. And it was too much for a single magazine article. (A series, maybe?) I found 'Worst Hard Time' lost its effectiveness at various points, made getting to the end more of a chore than I'd expected....; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-04-2009; Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz; Wow, I love American history and I love farming. But this is one of the most boring books I have muddled through in a long, long time. He developed the setting very well and built the characters so that the reader would know them...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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