The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust BowlModern · History, Nonfiction, American History
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
2005 · 352 pages · Nonfiction
52
Modern
★ 4.07 on Goodreads · 65K ratings
≈ 9 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
National Book Award (Nonfiction) winner (2006). 4.07★ from 65K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
52Must-Read Score
- Critics51 out of 100 · counts 35%+20
- Readers56 out of 100 · counts 50%+32
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Where it ranks
- #116 of the 220 history books we rank
- #155 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #487 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- National Book Award (Nonfiction) winner (2006)
Reads as
True story
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