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| The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Edition 001) | 
 enlarge | Author: Timothy Egan
Publisher: Mariner Books
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
Buy New: $6.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (196 reviews)
Sales Rank: 727
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0618773479
Dewey Decimal Number: 978.032
EAN: 9780618773473
ASIN: 0618773479
Publication Date: September 1, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 A Chilling Story February 24, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a very well written tale of an unnatural disaster. Mr. Egan does an excellent job of describing how the grasslands of the Southern Plains were stripped of their natural cover and then blown away when the rains stopped and the winds didn't. The descriptions of the historical and scientific aspects of the dust bowl are handled clearly and serve as a background for the core of the story, which is how the lives of the settlers were changed. At times what the residents of that area endured is truly horrifying and Mr. Egen is at his best as he follows the survivors through the agonies of the 1930's. A superb book that will educate as well as move you.
 Wonderful history, but enough is enough February 14, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This a great history of a forgotten time. A time for those who lived through it, they wish they could forget. The author starts out by incorporating in his text slang words from the 1930's era which only helps to put you right there. He skillfully weaves into his history the lives of five families and carries them through the eight-year drought that created the Dust Bowl. I would have given this book another star, if the author could have somehow used some different words to describe the daily incessant brownies and blackies of the dusters. The descriptions become as boring as the skies and ground, brown and nondescript. These non-descriptions tend to extend the history infinitem, though I am sure to live it was a day after day struggle. Thank goodness he picks up the five familes during their continuing downturns to break up the monotony. An excellent read none the less.
 Blows harder than a West Texas wind, and you screwed up your map. January 27, 2006
13 out of 49 found this review helpful
An over hyped political/enviromental fluff piece wrapped in the guise of a historical text. No serious thought is given to the historical subect matter, only deftly written jabs at 'uninformed settlers, swindling politicians and failed farm policy.' Pass on Timothy Egan if you are looking for a work of historical value, read if you are easily swayed by hyper, sensationalized, flippant, journalistic writing. br / And for crying out loud, Follett and Darrouzett, Texas need to be flipped on your 'map' and "No Man's Land" is the entire Oklahoma panhandle, not just the western portion as your book states.
Towering January 10, 2006
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
A stunning, eye-opening look at a heartbreaking time in American history. A prolonged time of determination and despair. It was the Great Depression within the Depression. Such a sustained catastrophe, and yet, growing up, we examined so little about this in our history classes in grade school. This should be required reading, from a historical perspective. But more than that, it is an amazingly compelling read. Halfway through the book, you'll be asking yourself, "How can anyone have survived this?" You will be stunned that it keeps getting worse, because you won't be able to imagine anything remotely close to the reality of it.
 Dry as dust January 8, 2006
16 out of 26 found this review helpful
Timothy Egan's "The Worst Hard Time" proffers a look at the Dust Bowl from a slightly different perspective than most Americans are familiar...he tells it from the inside out. This is not a book about the Okies who packed up and moved west. "The Worst Hard Time" puts its focus on citizens of Dalhart, Texas and Boise City, Oklahoma (to name few) and details their struggles to survive years of drought and misery. To Egan's credit, it's a good start.br /br /The author is at his best when he chronicles an overall view of what it was like to live in the Dust Bowl...an area that stretched from the Texas panhandle to southern Nebraska and included portions of six states. He reminds us that the cause of the problems during a decade-long recurrence of "dusters" were largely man-made. The rape of native grasslands through plowing so weakened the soil and existing plants that the land was ripe for storms on the magnitude of which he describes. Egan, as an historian, informs well, although after mentioning several times that the dusters caused terrific amounts of static electricity, (enough to knock down a man) he never gives us a clue as to how or why that electricity accumulated its power.br /br /The problem with this book is that the narrative is as dry as the conditions upon which he comments. The half dozen or so people whom the author settles upon don't seem to win much more than a skirting empathy as one wonders if they really weren't well enough put together to follow their neighbors away. Except for some wonderful diary entries by Don Hartwell of Inavale, Nebraska (who stayed until the bitter end) and a chapter on Black Sunday, Egan misses terrific opportunities to liven up his own work. A storyteller he is not. br /br /There are many surviviors still around from those days on the High Plains. It would be nice to see a book about their experiences told in their own words, as Don Hartwell had done. "The Worst Hard Time" delivers some good information, but unlike the dusters, it never gets off the ground.
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