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肮脏的三十年代：沙尘暴中的美国人（译文纪实）
(us) Timothy Egan
The simplest thing in life - breathing, becomes a threat. The National Book Award-winning nonfiction work is an oral history of the development of the American West, including rare historical pictures from the 1930s. Through the voices of the surviving people and historical pictures, this book recreates a memory of the 1930s that will be taken to the grave by those who experienced it. The rapid development of the American West during and after World War I, along with misguided homestead policies and wartime demand that pushed up wheat prices, spurred reckless plowing of the Great Plains, stripping away the vegetation that had held the soil in place and resisted wind erosion for thousands of years. Eventually, an unprecedented dust storm swept across the western United States, affecting Chicago and even New York. At the same time, the United States fell into the Great Depression, the economy was sluggish, and no one cared about the high yields of food brought about by over-planting. Through the rise and fall of more than a dozen families and their communities and regions, the author uncovers the dusty past and shows the tragic scene of the dirty 1930s: sandstorms made people feel like they were living in a long night, the land was barren, crops failed, and relatives died of pneumoconiosis... In 10 years, the homesteads that carried the future turned into a cemetery covered with yellow sand. The book contains the courage and sorrow of Americans in difficult times, the tenacity and tenacity of fighting nature, and the shamelessness and deceit of politicians. In the final analysis, it is the devastating misfortune caused by human ignorance of the environment.
The simplest thing in life - breathing, becomes a threat. The National Book Award-winning nonfiction work is an oral history of the development of the American West, including rare historical pictures from the 1930s. Through the voices of the surviving people and historical pictures, this book recreates a memory of the 1930s that will be taken to the grave by those who experienced it. The rapid development of the American West during and after World War I, along with misguided homestead policies and wartime demand that pushed up wheat prices, spurred reckless plowing of the Great Plains, stripping away the vegetation that had held the soil in place and resisted wind erosion for thousands of years. Eventually, an unprecedented dust storm swept across the western United States, affecting Chicago and even New York. At the same time, the United States fell into the Great Depression, the economy was sluggish, and no one cared about the high yields of food brought about by over-planting. Through the rise and fall of more than a dozen families and their communities and regions, the author uncovers the dusty past and shows the tragic scene of the dirty 1930s: sandstorms made people feel like they were living in a long night, the land was barren, crops failed, and relatives died of pneumoconiosis... In 10 years, the homesteads that carried the future turned into a cemetery covered with yellow sand. The book contains the courage and sorrow of Americans in difficult times, the tenacity and tenacity of fighting nature, and the shamelessness and deceit of politicians. In the final analysis, it is the devastating misfortune caused by human ignorance of the environment.