This Land Is Their Land

Reports from a Divided Nation

Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
ISBN: 9780805090154

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 Full of wit and generosity, these reports from a divided nation--including new and unpublished essays--confirm onc

Publisher: Macmillan
Publish Date: 2009-04-27

Subjects: Business & Economics / Economic Conditions, Political Science / Political Economy, Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy, Political Science / Essays, Social Science / Sociology / General

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