Description: "From Dust They Came tells the story of Dust Bowl refugees' experiences in the camps that New Deal reformers built throughout agricultural California to redeem migratory farm workers from lives of vulnerability and filth, and from pre-modern ways of living and believing"--
Brief description: Jonathan H. Ebel is Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and author of G.I. Messiahs: Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion.
Review Quotes: "Modernity is forever religiously unpurified, religiously contaminated. Jonathan Ebel has written a compelling, compulsively readable account of one chapter in the history of this fun house mirror."-- "The Journal of Religion"