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Egan captures the very voice of the times- its grit, pathos, and abiding heroism-as only great history can. .... a lasting and important work of American history.
Houghton Mifflin
December 2005
320 pages
ISBN: 061834697X
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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 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. Egan captures the very voice of the times-its grit, pathos,
and abiding heroism-as only great history can. 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. Egan captures the very voice of the times- its grit,
pathos, and abiding heroism-as only great history can.
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.
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