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OverviewA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The jaw-dropping exposé on how America's fast food industry has shaped the landscape of America. This fascinating study reveals how the fast food industry has altered the landscape of America, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and transformed food production throughout the world. Eric Schlosser inspires readers to look beneath the surface of our food system, consider its impact on society and, most of all, think for themselves. This book has changed the way millions of people think about what they eat and helped to launch today's food movement. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Eric SchlosserPublisher: Cengage Learning, Inc Imprint: Houghton Mifflin Edition: Revised ed. Dimensions: Width: 13.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 20.10cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9780547750330ISBN 10: 0547750331 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 12 March 2012 Recommended Age: From 14 years Audience: Young adult , Teenage / Young adult Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsSchlosser is a serious and diligent reporter... [Fast Food Nation] is a fine piece of muckraking, alarming without beling alarmist. --Rob Walker, New York Times Book Review 1/21/01 Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation is a good old-fashioned muckraking expose in the tradition of The American Way of Death that's as disturbing as it is irresistible....Exhaustively researched, frighteningly convincing....channeling the spirits of Upton Sinclair and Rachel Carson....Schlosser's research is impressive--statistics, reportage, first-person accounts and interviews, mixing the personal with the global. --San Francisco Chronicle An exemplary blend of polemic and journalism....A tale full of sound, fury, and popping grease. --starred review Kirkus Reviews Schlosser is part essayist, part investigative journalist. His eye is sharp, his profiles perceptive, his prose thoughtful but spare; this is John McPhee behind the counter.... --Washington Post ...everywhere in his thorough, gimlet-eyed, superbly told story, Mr. Schlosser offers up visionary glints....For pure, old-fashioned, Upton Sinclair-style muckraking, the chapters on the meatpacking industry are masterful. --Observer 'Fast Food Nation' is investigative journalism of a very high order. And the fit between the author's reporting and his narrative style is just about perfect. The prose moves gracefully between vignette and exposition, assembling great quantities of data in small areas without bursting at the seams. --Newsday Schlosser establishes a seminal argument for the true wrongs at the core of modern America. --Publishers Weekly, Starred Reminiscent of Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'..... --Boston Globe Schlosser has done huge amounts of intense, on-the-scene reporting, and he backs up his concerns very convincingly. He presents incredibly resonant images and statistics and observations the reader is unlikely to forget. --San Jose Mercury News 'Fast Food Nation' should be another wake-up call, a super-size serving of common sense.... --Atlanta Journal Constitution Part cultural history, part investigative journalism and part polemic...intelligent and highly readable critique.... --Time Out New York Fast Food Nation is the kind of book that you hope young people read because it demonstrates far better than any social studies class the need for government regulation, the unchecked power of multinational corporations and the importance of our everyday decisions. --USA Today Fast Food Nation presents these sometimes startling discoveries in a manner that manages to be both careful and fast-paced. Schlosser is a talented storyteller, and his reportorial skills are considerable. --Hartford Courant--No Source <p> Schlosser is a serious and diligent reporter... [ Fast Food Nation ] is a fine piece of muckraking, alarming without beling alarmist. <br>--Rob Walker, New York Times Book Review 1/21/01 <br> Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation is a good old-fashioned muckraking expose in the tradition of The American Way of Death that's as disturbing as it is irresistible....Exhaustively researched, frighteningly convincing....channeling the spirits of Upton Sinclair and Rachel Carson....Schlosser's research is impressive--statistics, reportage, first-person accounts and interviews, mixing the personal with the global. <br>-- San Francisco Chronicle<br> <br> An exemplary blend of polemic and journalism....A tale full of sound, fury, and popping grease. <br>--starred review Kirkus Reviews <br> Schlosser is part essayist, part investigative journalist. His eye is sharp, his profiles perceptive, his prose thoughtful but spare; this is John McPhee behind the counter.... <br>-- Washington Post <br>. . .everywhere in his thorough, gimlet-eyed, superbly told story, Mr. Schlosser offers up visionary glints....For pure, old-fashioned, Upton Sinclair-style muckraking, the chapters on the meatpacking industry are masterful. <br>-- Observer<br> <br> 'Fast Food Nation' is investigative journalism of a very high order. And the fit between the author's reporting and his narrative style is just about perfect. The prose moves gracefully between vignette and exposition, assembling great quantities of data in small areas without bursting at the seams. <br>-- Newsday<br> <br> Schlosser establishes a seminal argument for the true wrongs at the core of modern America. <br>-- Publishers Weekly, Starred <br> Reminiscent of Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'..... <br>-- Boston Globe<br> <br> Schlosser has done huge amounts of intense, on-the-scene reporting, and he backs up his concerns very convincingly. He presents incredibly resonant images and statistics and observations the reader Schlosser is a serious and diligent reporter... [ Fast Food Nation ] is a fine piece of muckraking, alarming without beling alarmist. --Rob Walker, New York Times Book Review 1/21/01 Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation is a good old-fashioned muckraking expose in the tradition of The American Way of Death that's as disturbing as it is irresistible....Exhaustively researched, frighteningly convincing....channeling the spirits of Upton Sinclair and Rachel Carson....Schlosser's research is impressive--statistics, reportage, first-person accounts and interviews, mixing the personal with the global. -- San Francisco Chronicle An exemplary blend of polemic and journalism....A tale full of sound, fury, and popping grease. --starred review Kirkus Reviews Schlosser is part essayist, part investigative journalist. His eye is sharp, his profiles perceptive, his prose thoughtful but spare; this is John McPhee behind the counter.... -- Washington Post . . .everywhere in his thorough, gimlet-eyed, superbly told story, Mr. Schlosser offers up visionary glints....For pure, old-fashioned, Upton Sinclair-style muckraking, the chapters on the meatpacking industry are masterful. -- Observer 'Fast Food Nation' is investigative journalism of a very high order. And the fit between the author's reporting and his narrative style is just about perfect. The prose moves gracefully between vignette and exposition, assembling great quantities of data in small areas without bursting at the seams. -- Newsday Schlosser establishes a seminal argument for the true wrongs at the core of modern America. -- Publishers Weekly, Starred Reminiscent of Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'..... -- Boston Globe Schlosser has done huge amounts of intense, on-the-scene reporting, and he backs up his concerns very convincingly. He presents incredibly resonant images and statistics and observations the reader is unlikely to forget. -- San Jose Mercury News 'Fast Food Nation' should be another wake-up call, a super-size serving of common sense.... -- Atlanta Journal Constitution Part cultural history, part investigative journalism and part polemic...intelligent and highly readable critique.... -- Time Out New York Fast Food Nation is the kind of book that you hope young people read because it demonstrates far better than any social studies class the need for government regulation, the unchecked power of multinational corporations and the importance of our everyday decisions. -- USA Today Fast Food Nation presents these sometimes startling discoveries in a manner that manages to be both careful and fast-paced. Schlosser is a talented storyteller, and his reportorial skills are considerable. -- Hartford Courant <p> Schlosser is a serious and diligent reporter... [ Fast Food Nation ] is a fine piece of muckraking, alarming without beling alarmist. <br>--Rob Walker, New York Times Book Review 1/21/01 <br> Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation is a good old-fashioned muckraking expose in the tradition of The American Way of Death that's as disturbing as it is irresistible....Exhaustively researched, frighteningly convincing....channeling the spirits of Upton Sinclair and Rachel Carson....Schlosser's research is impressive--statistics, reportage, first-person accounts and interviews, mixing the personal with the global. <br>-- San Francisco Chronicle<br> <br> An exemplary blend of polemic and journalism....A tale full of sound, fury, and popping grease. <br>--starred review Kirkus Reviews <br> Schlosser is part essayist, part investigative journalist. His eye is sharp, his profiles perceptive, his prose thoughtful but spare; this is John McPhee behind the counter.... <br>-- Washington Author InformationEric Schlosser is a contributing editor for the Atlantic and the author of Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness, and Chew on This (with Charles Wilson). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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