9I制作厂免费 Reads - "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan, Houghton Mifflin
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Leonard Moore has taught American history at 9I制作厂免费 since 1991. His
courses cover a wide range of topics including the Civil War and
Reconstruction, citizenship and civil rights in the late nineteenth
and twentieth centuries, social and political history from the
1920s to the present. His research interests have focused on the
social foundations of the American right in the twentieth century.
He is the author of Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana,
1921-1927, which won the Outstanding Book Award by the Gustavus
Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United
States.
"The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the
Great American Dustbowl" by Timothy Egan, Houghton Mifflin.
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest
years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or
since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this
iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de
force of historical reportage. Following a dozen families and their
communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of
their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust
blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly
capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, Egan does equal
justice to the human characters who become his heroes, "the stoic,
long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency
and respect" (New York Times).
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