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

Egan, Timothy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0618773479 ISBN 13: 9780618773473

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2006

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

[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

L'autore:

TIMOTHY EGAN is a national enterprise reporter for the New York Times. He is the author of five books and the recipient of several awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

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• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0618773479
• ISBN 13: 9780618773473
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 340