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Book Review

Dust Bowl, USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929­1941. By Brad D. Lookingbill. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001. x + 190 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $44.95, cloth; $16.95, paper.)

     In the 1930s, economic and ecological catastrophes met at a crossroads on the Great Plains of North America. According to contemporary historians like Donald Worster, both disasters were of our own making: the consequences of unregulated, greed-saturated capitalism that used land and labor merely as means to create profit. Many government experts in the New Deal also believed that radical change in soil conservation and social organization would be necessary to avoid complete desertification. Well-regarded reports, like the 1936 Future of the Great Plains, and famous photographs, like "Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange, proclaimed the end to era of great dreams on the Great Plains. . . .

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