This Land Is Their Land
Reports from a Divided Nation
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Narrated by:
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Cassandra Campbell
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Written by:
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Barbara Ehrenreich
About this listen
Here they are, the 2000s, and in This Land Is Their Land, Ehrenreich subjects them to the most biting and incisive satire of her career.
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.
©2008 Barbara Ehrenreich (P)2008 TantorWhat the critics say
"[Ehrenreich's] passion, compassion and wit keep these excursions lively and timely." (Publishers Weekly)