The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

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 works for The New York Times as a national enterprise correspondent. He was part of a team of reporters who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for the paper's series on racial attitudes in modern America. He is the author of four books, the most recent of which, The Worst Hard Time: The Hidden Story of People Who Experienced the Great American Dust Bowl (2006), won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2006. Amy Pastan, a former editor and researcher at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, is now an independent editor and scholar. W. has written the preface. The Library of Congress's director of publishing, Ralph Eubanks.

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ISBN 13	9780618346974
ISBN 10	061834697X
Title	The Worst Hard Time
Author	Timothy Egan
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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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