This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780805088403 (0805088407)
ASIN: 0805088407
Publish date: 2008-06-24
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Economics,
Culture,
Politics,
Sociology,
Social,
Social Science,
Social Movements,
Social Justice
OK, yes, I AM a flaming liberal...and have been...for way more than 50 years...so of course I like this book! :-)
This book of essays is so wonderfully written. Ehrenreich points out the truth about the government, social issues and life in general. Some of the essays about being poor in American are dead-on.
With her characteristic wit in place, Barbara Ehrenreich skewers the Bush administration policies that have increased the gap between the proverbial haves and have nots, in every area from health care to salary. On some levels, this book is a lot of "I know this is happening" if you read the news. ...
Very different from her other books in that she seems VERY bitter about what is happening in this country. Mostly about how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, each chapter tackling a different subject. One thing that really bothered me reading this book is that hospitals are now putting pe...
I like Barbara’s books, but she, an extreme liberal, does exactly what the extreme conservatives do: She tells little scary stories out of context to promote her own agenda. Is our land really such a scary and terrible place? I don’t think so. What are her suggestions for making things better? She ...
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