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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl | 
 enlarge | Author: Timothy Egan
Creator: Patrick Girard Lawlor
Publisher: Tantor Media
Category: Book
List Price: $69.99
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Rating:  196 reviews
Sales Rank: 1221072
Format: Audiobook, Cd, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Library ed.
Number Of Items: 10
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 6.5 x 1
ISBN: 1400132207
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN: 9781400132201
ASIN: 1400132207
Publication Date: January 25, 2006
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Product Description
The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prizea "winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod huts to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out.
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 Leather bound dictionary January 6, 2009
This item makes a nice graduation gift - particularly for the high school graduate going on to college. Because it is leather bound, it can be imprinted with the recipients name. Most book stores can advise you where imprinting is available.
Captivating and prophetic January 4, 2009
Seldom has an author brought forth a moment in time with such vivid detail, solid research, and compassion. The Dust Bowl is brought back to life in Mr. Egan's amazing hands. Drawing the reader back to dreadful time in Amerixan history that has much to teach the readers of 2009.
The Worst Hard Time December 31, 2008
The Worst Hard Time reveals the overwhelming challenges of the first immigrants who came to the Great American Desert to carve out a life. The descriptive quality of the text draws the reader into the horrendous conditions the settlers faced in their quest to survive. An informative story for any reader interested in the history of America.
 Shows how little the people who run this country care December 24, 2008
Facing the biggest crisis since the Great Depression, this book should serve as a warning to us about how little those who run this country care for the lives of working people, farmers, and entire regions of the country. A whole region of the country was allowed to sink into total poverty, death, and destruction. Towns were abandoned, farmersm on what had been the richest lands in the world a few years previous, starved to death. As a teacher I hear other teachers tell me that with public jobs we are immune to the unemployment that is wracking the US now, but in this book we will read of teachers who were not paid for years, but kept on teaching until they were suffering from malnutrition.
This is a book we all need to read because like in the 1930s Dust Bowl, we have come to a disaster from a busted capitalist speculative bubble that is destroying millions, perhaps hundreds of millions of lives across the globe. This book paints the degree of suffering not nature, but capitalist greed and the indifference of those with the wealth and power to help carried out.
In saying this, as a writer, I enjoyed the prose. He gives the real story of people and families going through this period of history. He shows that despite the depths of the disaster and the inability of government to do anything about it, people, cowboys and farmers, teachers and storekeepers faced the dust bowl disaster with strength, courage, love, and solidarity
Exceptional read December 14, 2008
Remarkable, must read. Timothy Egan is superb. The Worst Hard Time should be read by ALL.
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