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Barbara Ehrenreich (1941–2022)

Author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

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Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of "Blood Rites"; "The Worst Years of Our Lives"; "Fear of Falling", which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, & eight other books. A frequent contributor to Time, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Mirabella, The Nation, The New York Magazine, she lives near Key West, Florida. (Publisher Fact Sheets) Political activist and writer Barbara Ehrenreich was born in Butte, Montana on August 26, 1941. She studied physics at Reed College and graduated in 1963. She received a Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Rockefeller University in 1968. Rather than pursuing a career in science, however, she decided to focus on social change. Ehrenreich has written columns and contributed articles to publications including Time Magazine, The Progressive, The New York Times, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Monthly, Ms, The New Republic, Harper's Magazine, and The Nation. She taught essay writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley in 1998 and 2000. Ehrenreich has written many books, with 2001's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America and 2005's Bait and Switch, The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream both becoming New York Times bestsellers. Nickel and Dimed examines working-class poverty, while Bait and Switch discusses white-collar unemployment. Her next bestseller was in 2014 with Living With a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything. In 1998 Ehrenreich was named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association, and she received the Nation Institute/Puffin Foundation Prize for Creative Citizenship in 2004. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America… (more)
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Works by Barbara Ehrenreich
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 10,545 copies, 202 reviews
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream 1,717 copies, 55 reviews
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has… 1,717 copies, 116 reviews
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women 811 copies, 19 reviews
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers 693 copies, 6 reviews
Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and… 552 copies, 29 reviews
This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation 548 copies, 19 reviews
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy 536 copies, 13 reviews
Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about… 488 copies, 38 reviews
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy (Editor) 467 copies, 2 reviews
Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War 423 copies, 7 reviews
Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class 349 copies, 2 reviews
The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment 257 copies, 2 reviews
Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness 223 copies
The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed 195 copies, 1 review
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Foreword) 995 copies, 52 reviews
Darwin (Norton Critical Edition) (Contributor) 617 copies, 4 reviews
Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology (Contributor, some editions) 421 copies, 1 review
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America (Introduction) 364 copies, 26 reviews
The Ralph Nader Reader (Foreword) 228 copies
The Best American Essays 2002 (Contributor) 216 copies, 1 review
Russell Baker's Book of American Humor (Contributor) 196 copies
Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture (Contributor, some editions) 91 copies
Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media (Foreword) 90 copies
The Best American Essays 2020 (Contributor) 81 copies, 2 reviews
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (Contributor) 80 copies, 1 review
Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century (Contributor) 77 copies, 1 review
Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control (Foreword, some editions) 72 copies
Constructing Masculinity (Contributor) 71 copies, 1 review
Woman's Book of Choices (Foreword) 61 copies
Here Lies My Heart: Essays on Why We Marry, Why We Don't, and What We Find… (Contributor) 60 copies, 3 reviews
The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular Media (Contributor) 52 copies, 1 review
Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America… (Contributor) 44 copies
People-First Economics: Making a Clean Start for Jobs, Justice, and… (Contributor) 42 copies
Poverty in the American Dream: Women and Children First (Author, some editions) 36 copies
One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and Torturers (Foreword, some editions) 36 copies
It's the Media, Stupid (Introduction) 32 copies
No Future for You: Salvos from The Baffler (Contributor) 29 copies
Lapham's Quarterly - Lines of Work: Volume IV, Number 2, Spring 2011 (Contributor) 28 copies, 2 reviews
Radical Democracy: Identity, Citizenship and the State (Contributor) 26 copies
The Best American Political Writing 2002 (Contributor) 25 copies
Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty, and Beyond (Foreword) 24 copies
Power Trip: U.S. Unilateralism and Global Strategy After September 11 (Contributor) 20 copies, 1 review
Abu Ghraib: The Politics of Torture (Contributor) 18 copies
Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (Contributor) 12 copies
Beyond Crisis: Confronting Health Care in the United States (Foreword, some editions) 7 copies
Der Hexenstreit. Frauen in der Frühneuzeitlichen Hexenverfolgung (Contributor) 3 copies
Discovering the Other America: Radical Voices from the 1980s (Contributor) 2 copies
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