| This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation Contributor(s): Ehrenreich, Barbara (Author) |
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ISBN: 0805090150 ISBN-13: 9780805090154 Publisher: Holt Paperbacks OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: In her first work of satirical commentary, "The Worst Years of Our Lives," Barbara Ehrenreich skewered the Reagan era. Now she brilliantly dissects one of the cruelest decades in memory-the 2000s-in which she finds a nation scarred by deepening inequality, corroded by distrust, and shamed by its official cruelty. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Essays - Political Science | Political Economy - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy |
| Dewey: 973.93 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.50 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
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| Publisher Description: America in the 'aughts--hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by one of the country's most prominent social critics Now in paperback, Barbara Ehrenreich's widely acclaimed This Land Is Their Land takes the measure of what we are left with after the cruelest decade in memory and finds lurid extremes all around. While members of the moneyed elite have bought up congressmen, many in the working class can barely buy lunch. While a wealthy minority obsessively consumes cosmetic surgery, the poor often go without health care for their children. And while the Masters of the Universe have thrown themselves into the casino economy, the less fortunate have been fed a diet of morality, marriage, and abstinence. With perfect satiric pitch, Ehrenreich reveals a country scarred by deepening inequality, corroded by distrust, and shamed by its official cruelty. Full of wit and generosity, these reports from a divided nation--including new and unpublished essays--confirm once again that Ehrenreich is, as the San Francisco Chronicle proclaims, essential reading. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ehrenreich, Barbara: - Barbara Ehrenreich is the bestselling author of several books, including Nickel and Dimed, Bait and Switch, Bright-sided, This Land Is Their Land, Dancing In The Streets, and Blood Rites. A frequent contributor to Harper's and The Nation, she has also been a columnist at The New York Times and Time magazine. "A simply brilliant, hilarious satirist."--The Baltimore Sun "It would be hard to find a wittier, more insightful guide to the last three decades than Ehrenreich. Arguing with her is part of the pleasure of reading her."--Laura Shapiro, Newsweek |