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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowlby: Timothy Egan  List Price: $69.99 Amazon.com's Price: $53.19 You Save: $16.80 (24%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDDewey Decimal Number: 973 EAN: 9781400132201 Edition: Library ed. Format: Audiobook, CD, Unabridged ISBN: 1400132207 Label: Tantor Media Manufacturer: Tantor Media Number Of Items: 10 Publication Date: January 25, 2006 Publisher: Tantor Media Studio: Tantor Media Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - An absolutely magnificent work of history.I have read many books on history and biography. Egan's work is probably the finest of them all, bar none. To amplify this, after I finished reading the book I turned to page one and immediately read it again. It is that extraordinary. Egan did such a magnificent job that sometimes I felt as though I was reading Charles Frazier's prose instead of history. Yes, the storms came and continued coming for 5 years, but I found every page of his presentation of life on the Great Plains ... Read More Rating: - Cautionary tale about the dangers of trifling with natureTimothy Egan has written a first-class book about the Great American Dust Bowl. The story documents how government and business--even with the best of intentions--can facilitate the destruction of an entire region. Using actual stories of hearty survivors who persevered dust storms, drought and depression, Egan accurately recounts historical events with flair and drama. He makes history come alive by managing a rare accomplishment; educating while entertaining the reader. Rating:  - The Worst Hard TimeExcellant. I heard about the "Dust Bowl" but never imagined what it really was and how terrible of time in our history. This book really opened my eyes. Hearing the stories from people that survived that time makes me fully appreciate how we have it today. Rating: - Non-fiction that Reads Like a NovelWhat was the worst environmental disaster of the 20th century? Would you believe the over-farming of the southern Great Plains that led to the enormous dust storms of the 1930s? The biggest of these storms on April 14, 1935, which went down in history as "Black Sunday," completely blocked out the sun and contained more tons of dust and dirt than was removed to dig the Panama Canal. All of it airborne - clogging lungs, blinding cattle, burying homesteads, and turning the Great Plains into a lunar ... Read More Rating: - I had no clue...since I was born in the late 60's yet here in 2008 I wanted to know about the folks that survived during that period of time, how they lived and why it had all happened. Timothy made this real and "touchable" for me. Your heart breaks for these people, it's a very moving tribute. I came away grateful for everything in my life. 
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