Going to Extremes - Notes from a Divided Nation

Informationen zum Autor Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of over twenty books , including Nickel & Dimed: Undercover in Low-Wage USA, Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World and Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War. She has written for Time , Harper's , the Progressive , the Nation , the New York Times Magazine, the Guardian , The Times and the New Statesman . She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Klappentext Barbara Ehrenreich shows how the widening gap between rich and poor over the past eight years has left the country increasingly divided between the gated communities on the one hand, and the trailer parks and tenements on the other. She describes a country where the super-rich travel by private jet, while low-paid workers make multiple bus trips to get to their jobs; where a wealthy minority obsessively consumes cosmetic surgery, while the poor often go without basic health care for their children. GOING TO EXTREMES brilliantly anatomises a nation approaching its 2008 election corroded by distrust. Zusammenfassung America is a grotesquely polarized society and becoming more so all the time. In this razor-sharp! funny and terrifying collection of pieces! Barbara Ehrenreich shows how the widening gap between rich and poor over the past eight years has left the country increasingly divided.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbara (Y) Ehrenreich, Ehrenreich Barbara
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.07.2008
• EAN: 9781847080653
• ISBN: 978-1-84708-065-3
• No. of pages: 235
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); USA; Politik, Zeitgeschichte, USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, United States of America, USA, Politics and government