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Dust Bowl Through the Lens How Photography Revealed and Helped Remedy a National Disaster

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ISBN-10: 0802795471

ISBN-13: 9780802795472

Edition: 2008

Authors: Martin W. Sandler

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The Dust Bowl was a time of hardship and disaster. The worst ecological disaster in our nation's history turned more than 100 million acres of fertile land almost completely to dust. Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to seek new homes and opportunities thousands of miles away, while millions more chose to stay and battle nature to save their land. These terrible repercussions from the Dust Bowl contributed to the Great Depression, which impacted the entire country.FDR's New Deal army of photographers took to the roads during this national crisis to document the human struggle of the proud people of the plains. Their pictures spoke a thousand words, and a new form a…    
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Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 10/1/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 96
Size: 10.25" wide x 10.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

Martin W. Sandler is the author of Lincoln Through the Lens and The Dust Bowl Through the Lens. He has won five Emmy Awards for his writing for television and is the author of more than sixty books, two of which have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Among Sandler's other books are the six volumes in his award-winning Library of Congress American History Series for Young People, a series which has sold more than 500,000 copies. Other books by Mr. Sandler include: Island of Hope: The Story of Ellis Island, Trapped in Ice, The Story of American Photography, The Vaqueros, America: A Celebration, and This Was America. Martin Sandler has taught American history and American studies at the…