by Egan, Timothy

In The Worst Hard Time NY Times journalist Timothy Egan tells a story of boom, bust, and environmental disaster in West Texas and the Oklahoma panhandle during the 1930s. Egan has taken the testimony of Dust Bowl survivors and combed local newspapers to create a vivid account. The worst dust storms reduced even indoor visibility to zero, created such static electricity that people were afraid to touch anything, and left thousands suffering "dust pneumonia." Amazingly, most chose to stay and survived the "Dirty Thirties." Egan adds chapters on the response of the Roosevelt adminstration and finds a hero in North Carolinian Hugh Bennett, "the father of soil conservation."
- reviewed by Tom, University City Regional, PLCMC

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by Egan, Timothy
 

by Egan, Timothy
In The Worst Hard Time NY Times journalist Timothy Egan tells a story of boom, bust, and environmental disaster in West Texas and the Oklahoma panhandle during the 1930s. Egan has taken the testimony of Dust Bowl survivors and combed local newspapers to create a vivid account. The worst dust storms reduced even indoor visibility to zero, created such static electricity that people were afraid to touch anything, and left thousands suffering "dust pneumonia." Amazingly, most chose to stay and survived the "Dirty Thirties." Egan adds chapters on the response of the Roosevelt adminstration and finds a hero in North Carolinian Hugh Bennett, "the father of soil conservation."
- reviewed by Tom, University City Regional, PLCMC

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