![]() ![]() ![]() Egan pieces together a collective narrative out individual parts that includes diaries, personal histories of actual survivors, newspaper articles and even manages to track down first-person accounts that were self-published by the authors themselves. Timothy Egan’s The Worst Hard Time thus can become for many their first exposure to this underreported aspect of Great Depression biography.Įgan’s process of making the stories of those who chose to remain behind while so many friends and family members heeded Horatio Alger’s advice to “Go west” may seem somewhat familiar to viewers of the documentaries of Ken Burns. John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath remains such an iconic fictional portrait of the effects of the Dust Bowl on victims already suffering as a result of the Great Depression in middle America in the 1930s that it can be difficult to even conceive of how people dealt with those two-fisted blows of hardship by choosing to remain there rather than leaving in search of greener pastures and better times. Written by Timothy Sexton, Steven Ramsingh ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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