Barbara Ehrenreich, Author Metropolitan Books $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5723-2
It is a truism that everyone seeks happiness, but public manifestations of it have not always been free of recrimination. Colonial regimes have defined spectacles as an inherently ""primitive"" act and elders harrumph at youthful exultation. Social...
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Barbara Ehrenreich. Twelve, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4555-4367-0
Activist and journalist Ehrenreich (Natural Causes) addresses numerous hot-button issues in this argumentative and passionate collection. She challenges the status quo throughout, while also including a healthy dose of self-questioning. The 40...
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Barbara Ehrenreich. Twelve, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4555-3591-0
Claiming to be “old enough to die,” feminist scholar Ehrenreich (Living with a Wild God) takes on the task of investigating America’s peculiar approach to aging, health, and wellness. She comes down hard on what she describes as “medicalized life”:...
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Barbara Ehrenreich. Twelve, $26 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4555-0176-2
Based on a notebook she started when she was 14 after a series of puzzling “dissociative” episodes that verged on the mystical, Ehrenreich, best-known for her polemics on issues of social justice (Bright-Eyed; Bait and Switch), fashions an intensely
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Barbara Ehrenreich, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-26648-6
The only reason to collect columns and call them essays is to display the work of a superlative writer. Ehrenreich is one such. This collection contains pieces from the Nation, the Guardian, Time and other publications, each one short and slamming...
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Barbara Ehrenreich, Author Harper Perennial $13.5 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-097333-9
Ehrenreich charges that the U.S. middle class (especially professionals) has retreated from liberalism to a meaner, more selfish outlook. ``In an analysis that should be a starting point for future debate, Ehrenreich exposes many myths and...
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Barbara Ehrenreich, Author Metropolitan Books $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5077-6
Ehrenreich (The Snarling Citizen) has a well-deserved reputation as a trenchant critic of contemporary American society. Her new book goes beyond the class and gender parameters that have shaped her previous work, however. Here, Ehrenreich argues...
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Barbara Ehrenreich, Author Pantheon Books $19.95 (275p) ISBN 978-0-394-57847-7
Ehrenreich ( Fear of Falling et al.) here reprints a selection of her elegantly satirical essays that were originally published in Ms , Mother Jones and other journals during the past decade, articles in which she skewers political figures and...
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Barbara Ehrenreich, Author . Holt $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7606-6
A wild bestseller in the field of poverty writing, Ehrenreich's 2001 exposé of working-class hardship, Nickel and Dimed
, sold over a million copies in hardcover and paper. If even half that number of people buy this follow-up, which...
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Barbara Ehrenreich, Author . Metropolitan $23 (235p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8749-9
Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed
) delivers a trenchant look into the burgeoning business of positive thinking. A bout with breast cancer puts the author face to face with this new breed of frenetic positive thinking promoted by everyone from scientists
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Barbara Ehrenreich, Author . Metropolitan $24 (235p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8840-3
When a hospital employee whose hospital-supplied insurance doesn't cover her hospital-incurred bill finds her wages garnished, where's a political satirist to go for material? Feisty, fearlessly progressive Ehrenreich offers laughter on...
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Barbara Ehrenreich, Author . Metropolitan $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5724-9
It is a truism that everyone seeks happiness, but public manifestations of it have not always been free of recrimination. Colonial regimes have defined spectacles as an inherently "primitive" act and elders harrumph at youthful exultation....
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Barbara Ehrenreich, Author, Kate Reading, Read by , read by Katie Reading. Macmillan Audio $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0836-1
This audio is a perfect antidote for anyone fed up with the power of positive thinking and all its attendant pink ribbons, smiley faces, and injunctions to “have a nice day!” Ehrenreich explores how medical, academic, and business gurus...
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Barbara Ehrenreich, Author, Pam Ward, Read by , read by Pam Ward. Blackstone Audio $27.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7861-6245-1
Ehrenreich's social history of collective joy, ranging from pagan ritual to rock concerts, comes off as an extended, rambling lecture, taking in a varied array of subjects along the way. Taking the hint, Ward reads Ehrenreich's book with a...
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Barbara Ehrenreich, Author, Cassandra Campbell, Read by , read by Cassandra Campbell. Tantor Audio $24.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0773-5
Ehrenreich’s vicious, hilarious and striking tour de force of American culture and society today addresses a range of issues from class warfare to health care, higher education to feminism to religious institutionalization and political power.
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