{"product_id":"legendary-tomes-9780060520762","title":"The Children's Blizzard","description":"\u003cp\u003e“David Laskin deploys historical fact of the finest grain to tell the story of a monstrous blizzard that caught the settlers of the Great Plains utterly by surprise. Using the storm as a lens, [he] captures the brutal, heartbreaking folly of this chapter in America’s history, and along the way delves into the freakish physics of extreme cold. This is a book best read with a fire roaring in the hearth and a blanket and box of tissues near at hand.” — Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered \"land, freedom, and hope.\" The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled, and America’s heartland would never be the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e David Laskin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Harper Perennial\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication year:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2005\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780060520762\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable conditions:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good, Acceptable\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Legendary Tomes","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":47971476635826,"sku":"0060520760-11-1","price":13.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Acceptable","offer_id":47971476668594,"sku":"0060520760-7-1","price":12.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/5855\/4802\/files\/9780060520762-cover.jpg?v=1788042523","url":"https:\/\/legendarytomesbooks.com\/products\/legendary-tomes-9780060520762","provider":"Legendary Tomes","version":"1.0","type":"link"}