Review of ‘The Worst Hard Time’

Even today, Timothy Igan wrote that the violent big hit of the southern plain "panicks people as large houses may be attacked after headlights are extinguished." The main reason is "to force a strange relationship with a stranger who does not bring back anything in return". In the history of the authority of this region, it was later called the dust bowl, such as Colorado State, Kansas State, Nebraska State, Oklahoma State, Texas State, New Mexico State Plateau. A portrait of a forgotten land. In the darkest time of the Great Depression, a series of sandstorms occurred over the course of ten years, trying to argue that pioneer, raging the land.

In the 1920s, family owners attacked the plateau due to the rise in inexpensive land and wheat price, once the world's largest meadow. When farmers cultivated meadows with their tractors and then entered into general use - they removed the lawn soil that fixed it for thousands of years.

In the early 1930 's, a dust storm began. Eventually, the storm will be over 100 million acres, its size is comparable to the state of Pennsylvania. By 1935, about 250,000 Americans were obliged to leave the farms no longer being cultivated.

In 2002, Egan began a phenomenal adventure, they decided to record the experience of dusty survivors, and their witness record was forgotten. His goal is to record very unknown chapters in American history: stories of people who do not want to give up on their hard-earned farms and towns - there is no escape. As discovered by the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Egan, when there was no food on the ground, "nearly two thirds of the dust storm in the 1930s dropped and experienced a dirty event" There was no work during the depression and it was not so long ago that you got funds from the government. "Eagan came back and forth in the highway and returned to the historical society of towns, meadows, family farms and areas, some extraordinary story of the story"

When people open the door to him and breathe life for him, Eagan revives the sad heroic past. For example, Ike Osteen was a 90-year-old retired farmer, spent the land and shelter shelter with the widow's mother and 8 brothers and sisters. Dust was sucked into the lungs and suffocated and died. When Austin graduated from high school, he was the only child in the family to do so, and he handed a diploma to his mother. "Mom: I do not think that you are as smart as you are yet," he told a woman who had a family together. "nothing"

Egan also honors Independent foresight Hugh Hammond Bennett with little recognition of the signal's outcome. Agronologist Bennett was appointed by President Roosevelt and later led a thing called "dust action". It is the enthusiasm of such an outsider that the grassland must be restored to the plain and destructive farming methods must be completely over. He came up with a plan to reintroduce grassland grass on 600,000 acres of land. Egan wrote that his legacy is a long lasting legacy. Bennett's "Soil Protection Zone in the U.S." is "the only existing existing New Deal Grassroots Behavior that exists so far".

Timothy Egan's worst moment tells the story of farmers who decided to prosper in the plains of Texas, Colorado, New Mexico and Oklahoma in the 19th century. They decided to make a living, and they were there during the worst drought in the United States in the 1930s. A high temperature and dust storm destroyed this area and killed animals and human beings. This powerful book reveals the prosperity of many people and later reveals the age of thin cattle. The story is through survivor's testimony, their diary and diary, historical research. The author explains the struggle of the elderly. There, Egan expressly condemns these catastrophic events about the settlers' arrogance.

These dualities are everywhere. Today's politics, well-known "best times and worst times" take. It is difficult to remember the moment when a person was not bombarded in a 24-hour, 365-day news cycle due to trafficking, lying, scandalous, violent, injustice and fear of environmental hazards. But can you believe that eradication of diseases based on violence, poverty reduction, life expectancy, death is going in the right direction? Will these two statements be established? Charlie Munger said: "The best thinker can hold two opposing opinions at the same time." This sounds obvious, but why is it so difficult? First of all, it requires a lot of spiritual energy. It's easier to read another article that reinforces your beliefs and call it a day. Or ignore the idea contradictory to your view of the world. Secondly, we are people looking for status and our desire to accept tribes is deeply integrated into our DNA.