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Had I known : collected essays / Barbara Ehrenreich.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, [2020]Edition: First editionDescription: xvi, 364 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781455543670
  • 1455543675
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections
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Contents:
Introduction. Haves and Have-nots. Nickel-and-dimed: on (not) getting by in America ; How you can save Wall Street ; S&M as public policy ; Going to extremes: CEOs vs. slaves ; Are illegal immigrants the problem? ; What's so great about gated communities? ; Is it now a crime to be poor? ; A homespun safety net ; Dead, white, and blue: the great die-off of America's blue-collar white people. Health. Welcome to Cancerland ; The naked truth about fitness ; Got Grease? ; Our broken mental health system ; Liposuction: the key to energy independence ; The selfish side of gratitude. Men. How "natural" is rape? ; The warrior culture ; At last, a new man ; Patriarchy deflated. Women. Are women getting sadder? Or are we all just getting a lot more gullible? ; Our neighborhood porn committee ; Strategies of corporate women ; What Abu Ghraib taught me ; Making sense of la différence ; Outclassed: sexual harassment (with Alissa Quart). God, Science, and Joy. Mind your own business ; The animal cure ; The missionary position ; The new creationism: biology under attack (with Janet McIntosh) ; Up close at Trinidad's carnival. Bourgeois blunders. Family values ; The cult of busyness ; Death of a Yuppie dream (with John Ehrenreich) ; The unbearable being of whiteness ; Is the middle class doomed? ; Welcome to Fleece U. ; Prewatched TV ; The recession's racial divide (with Dedrick Muhammad) ; Divisions of labor ; Throw them out with the trash: Why homelessness is becoming an Occupy Wall Street issue.
Summary: "A collection of articles and excerpts from Barbara Ehrenreich's long-ranging career that highlight her social consciousness and wry wit." -- (Source of summary not specified)
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 814.54 E33 Available 33111009815453
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Winner of the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, HAD I KNOWN contains the most provocative, incendiary, and career-making pieces by bestselling author, essayist, political activist, and "veteran muckraker" Barbara Ehrenreich ( The New Yorker ).



A self-proclaimed "myth buster by trade," Barbara Ehrenreich has covered an extensive range of topics as a journalist and political activist, and is unafraid to dive into intellectual waters that others deem too murky. Now, Had I Known gathers the articles and excerpts from a long-ranging career that most highlight Ehrenreich's brilliance, social consciousness, and wry wit.



From Ehrenreich's award-winning article "Welcome to Cancerland," published shortly after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, to her groundbreaking undercover investigative journalism in Nickel and Dimed , to her exploration of death and mortality in the New York Times bestseller, Natural Causes , Barbara Ehrenreich has been writing radical, thought-provoking, and worldview-altering pieces for over four decades. Her reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review , the Washington Post , the Atlantic Monthly , and the Los Angeles Times Book Review , among others, while her essays, op-eds and feature articles have appeared in the New York Times , Harper's Magazine , the New York Times Magazine , Time , the Wall Street Journal , and many more. Had I Known pulls from the vast and varied collection of one of our country's most incisive thinkers to create one must-have volume.

Includes index.

Introduction. Haves and Have-nots. Nickel-and-dimed: on (not) getting by in America ; How you can save Wall Street ; S&M as public policy ; Going to extremes: CEOs vs. slaves ; Are illegal immigrants the problem? ; What's so great about gated communities? ; Is it now a crime to be poor? ; A homespun safety net ; Dead, white, and blue: the great die-off of America's blue-collar white people. Health. Welcome to Cancerland ; The naked truth about fitness ; Got Grease? ; Our broken mental health system ; Liposuction: the key to energy independence ; The selfish side of gratitude. Men. How "natural" is rape? ; The warrior culture ; At last, a new man ; Patriarchy deflated. Women. Are women getting sadder? Or are we all just getting a lot more gullible? ; Our neighborhood porn committee ; Strategies of corporate women ; What Abu Ghraib taught me ; Making sense of la différence ; Outclassed: sexual harassment (with Alissa Quart). God, Science, and Joy. Mind your own business ; The animal cure ; The missionary position ; The new creationism: biology under attack (with Janet McIntosh) ; Up close at Trinidad's carnival. Bourgeois blunders. Family values ; The cult of busyness ; Death of a Yuppie dream (with John Ehrenreich) ; The unbearable being of whiteness ; Is the middle class doomed? ; Welcome to Fleece U. ; Prewatched TV ; The recession's racial divide (with Dedrick Muhammad) ; Divisions of labor ; Throw them out with the trash: Why homelessness is becoming an Occupy Wall Street issue.

"A collection of articles and excerpts from Barbara Ehrenreich's long-ranging career that highlight her social consciousness and wry wit." -- (Source of summary not specified)

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