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The History Connection - The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Edition 001)
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List Price: $14.95
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Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 978.032
EAN: 9780618773473
ISBN: 0618773479
Label: Mariner Books
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2006-09-01
Publisher: Mariner Books
Studio: Mariner Books
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Summary: Leather bound dictionary
Comment: This item makes a nice graduation gift - particularly for the high school graduate going on to college. Because it is leather bound, it can be imprinted with the recipients name. Most book stores can advise you where imprinting is available.
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Summary: Captivating and prophetic
Comment: Seldom 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.
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Summary: The Worst Hard Time
Comment: The 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.
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Summary: Shows how little the people who run this country care
Comment: Facing 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
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Summary: Exceptional read
Comment: Remarkable, must read. Timothy Egan is superb. The Worst Hard Time should be read by ALL.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years
of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since.
Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter
of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical
reportage. Following a dozen families and their communities through
the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to
carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the
death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe,
Egan does equal justice to the human characters who become
his heroes, "the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he
opens up with urgency and respect" (New York Times).
In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst
Hard Time is "arguably the best nonfiction book yet" (Austin Statesman
Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited
upon our land and a powerful cautionary tale about the dangers of
trifling with nature.
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