The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Edition 001)
Mariner Books - Mariner Books
Release date: 2006-09-01
Paperback
Author: Timothy Egan
U.S. History - Depression And New Deal (1929-1938), History, History - U.S., History: American, History / United States / 20th Century, Natural Disasters, United States - 20th Century/Depression, United States - State & Local - Midwest, United States - 20th Century, 20th century, Droughts, Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939, Dust storms, Great Plains
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Edition 001)
Date undefinedSeldom 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: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Edition 001)
Date undefinedThe 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.
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Edition 001)
Date undefinedFacing 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
