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

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

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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Author: Timothy Egan
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-01
ISBN: 0618773479
Number of pages: 340
Publisher: Mariner Books
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  • ISBN13: 9780618773473
  • Condition: New
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Book Review: "Can't-put-it-down-History"
Summary: 5 Stars

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 fight the dirt, if the crops had died? How did they spend their time?

A true ecological disaster, the first public consciousness of the concept of ecology, and an implicit condemnation of the "free market".

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