Egan, Timothy

Contents: Introduction: Live Through This -- I promise: Great Plowup, 1901-1930: Wanderer -- No man's land -- Creating Dalhart -- High plains Deutsch -- Last of the great plowup -- Betryal, 1931-1933: First Wave -- Darkening -- In a dry land -- New leader, New Deal -- Big blows -- Blowup, 1934-1939: -- Triage -- Long darkness -- Struggle for Air -- Showdown in Dalhart -- Duster's eve -- Black Sunday --...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin 2006

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Egan, Timothy.

Summary: "From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016

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Egan, Timothy

Summary: "A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them. The Roaring Twenties--the Jazz Age--has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023

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Egan, Timothy.

Summary: In The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history, told through characters he brought to indelible life. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America, a tragedy that cemented Teddy Roosevelt's legacy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009

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Egan, Timothy.

Summary: "Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer--the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012

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