The Worst Hard Time Explained

The Worst Hard Time
Author:Timothy Egan
Country:United States
Language:English
Subject:Dust Bowl
Genre:Non-fiction
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (hardcover)
Mariner Books (paperback)
Pub Date:2007
Media Type:Print (hardcover, paperback), Audiobook, MP3 CD
Pages:352 pp (first edition)
Isbn:978-0-618-34697-4
Dewey:978/.032

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl is an American history book written by New York Times journalist Timothy Egan and published by Houghton Mifflin in 2006. It tells the problems of people who lived through The Great Depression's Dust Bowl, as a disaster tale.[1]

Egan and The Worst Hard Time won the 2006 National Book Award for Nonfiction[2] and the 2006 Washington State Book Award in History/Biography.

Egan attributes the Dust Bowl tragedy to reckless agricultural misuse of the land, and tells "vivid" and "poignant" stories about individual farmers and their families.[3]

Bibliographic information

Book: Egan , Timothy . The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2006. 978-0-618-77347-3 .

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 'The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan: The Anti-Joads . February 24, 2011 . . May 27, 2012.
  2. https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2006 "National Book Awards – 2006"
  3. News: The answer on the wind: Those who didn't escape scrabbled for a living. But how did the Dust Bowl happen?. Elizabeth. Corcoran. January 8, 2006. San Francisco Chronicle.