![]() ![]() 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 reminder about the dangers of trifling with nature. ![]() ![]() Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, he 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). Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Trying to get ahead and doing things in normal times they would never do. Before WW2 so many suffering, out of work and hungry. Such a very sad time in our Nation’s history. The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan is a non-fiction book about the Depression/Dust bowl era. In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan's National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. ![]()
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