This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation, by Barbara Ehrenreich

[limpyhobbler]

I just finished reading This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation by Barbara Ehrenreich.

It's pretty good. A little out of date maybe since it came out in 2008, so there are a lot of references to news events of the Bush years. But I found it for cheap at a used book store. Her witty and sarcastic personality really comes through in this book. There are some reviews on Amazon.

Not to be lazy but I can't describe it any better than the official blurb from Amazon:

Taking the measure of what we are left with after the cruelest decade in memory, Ehrenreich finds lurid extremes all around. While members of the moneyed elite can buy 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 corporate C-suites are now nests of criminality, the less fortunate are fed a diet of morality, marriage, and abstinence. Ehrenreich’s antidotes are as sardonic as they are spot-on: pet insurance for your kids; Salvation Army fashions for those who can no longer afford Wal-Mart; and boundless rage against those who have given us a nation scarred by deepening inequality, corroded by distrust, and shamed by its official cruelty.

http://www.amazon.com/This-Land-Is-Their-Reports/dp/0805088407

[bemildred]

1. Thanks, I'll look that up.

I'd be interested in what she has to say, even from 2008.