[A] fierce, humane account of the dreams and extremes that crashed head on during the nearly decade-long calamity of the Dust Bowl. The New York Times

[A] vivid and gritty piece of forgotten history.
USA Today

"The Worst Hard Time" provides a sobering, gripping account of a disaster whose wounds are still not fully healed today.
Boston Globe

The Worst Hard Time is a haunting work of narrative nonfiction.
The Baltimore Sun

Egan has admirably captured a part of our American experience that should not be forgotten.
The San Francisco Chronicle

Egan is a passionate and accomplished writer...Read this for history, not inspiration or entertainment.
The Denver Post

Egan's account of the Dust Bowl era is a final, terrible rebuke to the policies of America's dying days of frontier expansion.
The Seattle Times

THE WORST HARD TIME is a flat-out masterpiece of historical reportage.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer