Daniel Worster's Dust Bowl Review

The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was a massive and incessant "storm" which altered the way of life for the Depression ravaged citizens of America. The people awoke every morning hoping and praying for rain, while outside on their farms and in many urban areas, the conditions only worsened. Donald Worster's Dust Bowl, The Southern Plains in the 1930s, is an intricately detailed account of this storm which produced black blizzards and carried dust and …

…New Deal which show the governments interest in saving the people and economy from the devastation of the Dust Bowl and preventing the disaster from reoccurring. These events, however, proved ineffective in significantly changing farming techniques or helping prevent another such disaster. Worster presents historical information that exemplifies the attitudes associated with the expansionary, free enterprise oriented, capitalistic American culture, which actively participated in the destruction and exploitation of nature to satiate its ever-growing greed.