Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
"With a new foreword by Matthew Desmond"--Cover.
Brief description:
Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-2022) was a bestselling author and political activist, whose more than a dozen books included Nickel and Dimed, which the New York Times described as "a classic in social justice literature", Bait and Switch, Bright-sided, This Land Is Their Land, Dancing In the Streets, and Blood Rites. An award-winning journalist, she frequently contributed to Harper's, The Nation, The New York Times, and TIME magazine. Ehrenreich was born in Butte, Montana, when it was still a bustling mining town. She studied physics at Reed College, and earned a Ph.D. in cell biology from Rockefeller University. Rather than going into laboratory work, she got involved in activism, and soon devoted herself to writing her innovative journalism.
Review Quotes:
"Captivating . . . promise that you will read this explosive little book cover to cover and pass it on to all your friends and relatives."
--The New York Times
"Impassioned, fascinating, profoundly significant, and wildly entertaining . . .
Nickel and Dimed is not only important but transformative in its insistence that we take a long hard look at the society we live in."
--Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine "Valuable and illuminating . . . Barbara Ehrenreich is our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Jarring . . . fully of riveting grit . . . this book is already unforgettable."
--The New York Times
"Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four."
--Diane Sawyer "Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul."
--Molly Ivins "Ehrenreich is passionate, public, hotly lucid, and politically engaged."
--Chicago Tribune
"Ehrenreich's scorn withers, her humor stings, and her radical light shines on."
--The Boston Globe "One of today's most original writers."
--The New York Times
