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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 in the darkest years of the Depression.
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[A] fierce, humane account of the dreams and extremes that crashed head on during the nearly decade-long calamity of the Dust Bowl. The New York Times [A] vivid and gritty piece of forgotten history.
USA Today "The Worst Hard Time" provides a sobering, gripping account of a disaster whose wounds are still not fully healed today.
Boston Globe The Worst Hard Time is a haunting work of narrative nonfiction.
The Baltimore Sun Egan has admirably captured a part of our American experience that should not be forgotten.
The San Francisco Chronicle Egan is a passionate and accomplished writer...Read this for history, not inspiration or entertainment.
The Denver Post Egan's account of the Dust Bowl era is a final, terrible rebuke to the policies of America's dying days of frontier expansion.
The Seattle Times THE WORST HARD TIME is a flat-out masterpiece of historical reportage.
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USA Today "The Worst Hard Time" provides a sobering, gripping account of a disaster whose wounds are still not fully healed today.
Boston Globe The Worst Hard Time is a haunting work of narrative nonfiction.
The Baltimore Sun Egan has admirably captured a part of our American experience that should not be forgotten.
The San Francisco Chronicle Egan is a passionate and accomplished writer...Read this for history, not inspiration or entertainment.
The Denver Post Egan's account of the Dust Bowl era is a final, terrible rebuke to the policies of America's dying days of frontier expansion.
The Seattle Times THE WORST HARD TIME is a flat-out masterpiece of historical reportage.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
TIMOTHY EGAN is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, a New York Times columnist, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in nonfiction. His previous books include The Worst Hard Time, which won a National Book Award, and the national bestseller The Big Burn. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
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- PublisherMariner Books
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0618773479
- ISBN 13 9780618773473
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages340
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