The Worst Hard Time
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The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
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 Prize-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. He follows their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Drawing on the voices of those who stayed and survived, those who, now in their eighties and nineties, will soon carry their memories to the grave, Egan tells a story of endurance and heroism against the backdrop of the Great Depression.
Timothy Egan is a national enterprise reporter for The New York Times. In 2001, he was part of a team of reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the paper's series exploring racial attitudes across contemporary America. He is the author of four books, including The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (2006), which won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2006. Amy Pastan is an independent editor and scholar, formerly of the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The Preface is by W. Ralph Eubanks, director of publishing at The Library of Congress.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780618346974 |
| ISBN 10 | 061834697X |
| Title | The Worst Hard Time |
| Author | Timothy Egan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
| Year published | 2005-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Prizes | Winner of National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2006, Winner of Ambassador Book Awards (American Studies) 2007, Winner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2007, Winner of Oklahoma Book Award (Nonfiction) 2006, Winner of Washington State Book Award (History/Biography) 2006, Commended for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult Nonfiction) 2007 |
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