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][3] 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.[4]
References- ^ "'The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan: The Anti-Joads". The New York Times. February 24, 2011. Retrieved May 27, 2012.
- ^ 2006 National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, The National Book Foundation, retrieved 2009-02-24
- ^ "National Book Awards – 2006". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
- ^ Corcoran, Elizabeth (January 8, 2006). "The answer on the wind: Those who didn't escape scrabbled for a living. But how did the Dust Bowl happen?". San Francisco Chronicle.
Egan, Timothy (2006). The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-618-77347-3.
External links- Presentation by Egan on The Worst Hard Time, January 16, 2006
