Parents Choice Awards (Fall) (2008-Up) The Dust Bowl was a time of hardship and environmental and economic disaster.
More than 100 million acres of land had turned to dust, causing hundreds of thousands of people to seek new homes and opportunities thousands of miles away, while millions more chose to stay and battle nature to save their land.
FDR's army of photographers took to the roads to document this national crisis.
Their pictures spoke a thousand words, and a new form of storytelling- photojournalism-was born.
With the help of iconic photographs from Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, and many more, Martin Sandler tells the story of a nation as it endured its darkest days and the extraordinary courage and spirit of those who survived.
About the Author: Martin W.
Sandler is the author of Lincoln 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.
Sandler has taught American history and American studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Smith College, and lives in Massachusetts.
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Walker & Company The dust bowl through the lens: how photography revealed and helped remedy a national disaster, hardcover/martin w. sandler
