Reviews

The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History by Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns

dlsmall's review

4.0

Solid companion piece to an obviously excellent doc. Tapping its collection of period photos in the body of each chapter was great. Hitting a shorter work (or the doc itself) every now and again is keeping me from getting to The Worst Hard Time though…it’s been on my TBR for an age.

ewynn610's review

1

purlscout's review

5.0

it's a ken burns documentary in book form. so it rules.

johnmarlowe's review

4.0

This is an excellent companion book to the Ken Burns PBS series. It’s the simultaneous story of the extreme hardship in the 1930’s with the story of man’s consuming of resources which caused the extreme hardship. A sentence from one of the admirable people in the book, Caroline Henderson, tells it all when she talks about the consumption of water in the Ogallala aquifer which started at the end of the Dust Bowl: “Here again we come up against the hard fact that every material resource comes to an end unless constantly replenished.”