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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). In an era that promises ever-greater

natural disasters, "The Worst Hard Time" is "arguably the best

nonfiction book yet" (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest

environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a

powerful cautionary tale about the dangers of trifling with

nature.

Introduction: Live Through This

I · PROMISE: The Great Plowup, 1901-1980

  1. The Wanderer

  2. No Man's Land

  3. Creating Dalhart

  4. High Plains Deutsch

  5. Last of the Great Plowup

II · BETRAYAL, 1981-1988

  6. First Wave

  7. A Darkening

  8. In a Dry Land

  9. New Leader, New Deal

  10. Big Blows

III · BLOWUP, 1984-1989

  11. Triage

  12. The Long Darkness

  ……

Notes and Sources

Acknowledgments

Index

TIMOTHY EGAN worked for 18 years as a writer for The New York

Times, first as the Pacific Northwest correspondent, then as a

national enterprise reporter;  now his column appears online

weekly in the op-ed section.  In 2006 he won the National Book

Award for The Worst Hard Time.  In 2001 he won the

Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of reporters who wrote the series

"How Race is Lived In America."  Egan is the author of five

books and lives in Seattle, Washington.

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1935年夏天，富兰克林・罗斯福启动了第二个百日新政，这是国内改革史上迄今最重大的举措之

按照政府时间表，0要在一眨眼的工夫变成60。罗斯福签署了《社会保障法》，以确保没有养老金的老人不会挨饿；设立了公共事业振兴署，以确保政府能源源不断地支付薪酬；并支持《全国劳资关系法》，其中规定了工会在工作场所的权利农业经济正在政善：自胡佛下台以来，收入增加50%，农作物价格上张6%。罗斯福对此表示赞赏，他说政府宰牛杀猪并对剩余农田进行体耕的政策造成了一种强制稀缺，刺激了市场。

回到堪萨斯后，乔治与家人重归于好，并准备同其他几百个德国人起离开。他们把牛、鸡、马以及打包好的德国菜刀、《圣经》、手风琴和歌谣集都归到一起。火车上塞满了家畜，还有贝克尔一家、伯恩家、斯波默一家、哈夫纳一家一挤得水泄不通，司机只得命令几个人下车，说车超载，动不了了。一些孩子躲在母亲的裙摆底下以免被算作人头。他们恳求道：这是他们最后的希望。他们逃离了大多数美国人都不知道它存在的地方地图上都找不到但仍然没有家。俄克拉荷马是他们最后的机会，一如达尔哈特之于牛仔巴姆・怀特，无人之地之于卢卡斯和福尔科斯。

人类的故事每个都有其悲伤之处，都是一个更大的悲剧的一部分：美国中部大部分地区的崩溃。班内特说，1亿英亩土地失去了大部分表土，近一半“本质上被摧毁”，无法再耕种。想想这个规模吧，他说，一片从北向南绵延500英里、由东到西延伸300英里的区域正在沙化，变成扬尘；大平原总面积的三分之二被严重的风蚀破坏这是一场比美国历史上任何情况都严重的环境灾难。

政府保住了这个镇。休・班内特1936年8月来到达尔哈特，察看平原上最大的土壤保护工程一“沙尘碗行动”。该计划是通过等高耕种来缓解泥土流失，这种耕种方法是开挖犁沟从而使泥土不太可能被大量地吹起来，然后在上面播下从非洲引进的草种。其目标是从头开始培育生物，创造一个相互依存的地方，但不种植庄稼。只有上帝在创世纪

“没有理由相信高地平原地区的气候、温度、降雨和风力等主要因素发生过任何根本性变化，”报告指出，“大平原的问题不是大自然一己之カ的结果，也不是仅仅一年乃至连续多年的异常灾害的结果。”

那么，什么才是原因呢？

“错误的公共政策对这一情况负有很大的责任。”报告宣称。具体说来，是“一个错误的宅地政策，战时需求的刺激导致了过度种植和过度放牧，并鼓励了一种既不可能持久又不可能繁荣的农业体系”

“我出生在这片随时会起风的草原上，没什么能阻断太阳的光芒。我出生的地方没有围栏，万物都能自由地呼吸。我希望长眠于此，而不是埋在围墙之内……白人已经夺走了我们深爱的家园，我们只希望能在草原上流浪，直到死去的那一刻。”

书籍介绍

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). In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, "The Worst Hard Time" is "arguably the best nonfiction book yet" (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a powerful cautionary tale about the dangers of trifling with nature.