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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- First published
- 2006
- Length
- ≈ 352 pages
- Reading time
- 9–12 hours
- ISBN
- 061834697X
Reading time assumes 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate. Edition source
What is this book about?
Timothy Egan, a journalist at The New York Times, tells the story of people who lived through the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. He attributes the disaster to reckless agricultural misuse of the land and builds the book around the stories of individual farmers and their families.
Source: The Worst Hard Time
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