The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Egan, Timothy

ISBN 10: 0618773479 ISBN 13: 9780618773473

Verlag: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Will be dispatched from the UK. Used books may not include companion materials, may have some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include CDs or access codes. 100% money back guarantee.

Über diesen Titel

Críticas:

[A] fierce, humane account of the dreams and extremes that crashed head on during the nearly decade-long calamity of the Dust Bowl. The New York Times

[A] vivid and gritty piece of forgotten history.
USA Today

"The Worst Hard Time" provides a sobering, gripping account of a disaster whose wounds are still not fully healed today.
Boston Globe

The Worst Hard Time is a haunting work of narrative nonfiction.
The Baltimore Sun

Egan has admirably captured a part of our American experience that should not be forgotten.
The San Francisco Chronicle

Egan is a passionate and accomplished writer...Read this for history, not inspiration or entertainment.
The Denver Post

Egan's account of the Dust Bowl era is a final, terrible rebuke to the policies of America's dying days of frontier expansion.
The Seattle Times

THE WORST HARD TIME is a flat-out masterpiece of historical reportage.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Reseña del editor:

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist brings together an oral history of the American Dust Bowl that devastated the Great Plains during the Great Depression, following several families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region and their desperate struggle to persevere despite the devastation. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0618773479
• ISBN 13: 9780618773473
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 340