"The Worst Hard Time is an epic story of blind hope and endurance
almost beyond belief; it is also, as Tim Egan has told it, a
riveting tale of bumptious charlatans, conmen, and tricksters,
environmental arrogance and hubris, political chicanery, and a
ruinous ignorance of nature's ways. Egan has reached across the
generations and brought us the people who played out the drama in
this devastated land, and uses their voices to tell the story as
well as it could ever be told." -- Marq de Villiers, author of
Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
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
homes 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 deaths 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.
As only great history can, Egan's book captures the very voice of
the times: its grit, pathos, and abiding courage. Combining the
human drama of Isaac's Storm with the sweep of The American People
in the Great Depression, The Worst Hard Time is a lasting and
important work of American history.
Timothy Egan is a national enterprise reporter for the New York
Times. He is the author of four books and the recipient of several
awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Seattle,
Washington.
"As one who, as a young reporter, survived and reported on the
great Dust Bowl disaster, I recommend this book as a dramatic,
exciting, and accurate account of that incredible and deadly
phenomenon. This is can't-put-it-down history." --Walter Cronkite
"The Worst Hard Time is wonderful: ribbed like surf, and battering
us with a national epic that ranks second only to the Revolution
and the Civil War. Egan knows this and convincingly claims
recognition for his subject--as we as a country finally
accomplished, first with Lewis and Clark, and then for 'the
greatest generation, ' many of whose members of course were also
survivors of the hardships of the Great Depression. This is a
banner, heartfelt but informative book, full of energy, research,
and compassion." --Edward Hoagland, author of Compass Points: How I
Lived
"Here's a terrific true story--who could put it down? Egan
humanizes Dust Bowl history by telling the vivid stories of the
families who stayed behind. One loves the people and admires Egan's
vigor and sympathy." --Annie Dillard, author of Pilgrim at Tinker
Creek
"The American West got lucky when Tim Egan focused his acute powers
of observation on its past and present. Egan's remarkable
combination of clear analysis and warm empathy anchors his portrait
of the women and men who held on to their places--and held on to
their souls--through the nearly unimaginable miseries of the Dust
Bowl. This book provides the finest mental exercise for people
wanting to deepen, broaden, and strengthen their thinking about the
relationship of human beings to this earth." --Patricia N.
Limerick, author of The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of
the American West
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