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The New York Times bestseller that blew the lid off the fast food industry--exposing how it has malled our landscape, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad--with a new afterword from the masterful muckraker who started it all, Eric Schlosser. Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from California's subdivisions, where the business was born, to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike, where many of fast food's flavors are concocted. Along the way, he unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths--from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate. On its publication, Fast Food Nation changed the way America thinks about the way it eats, and it continues to inform and inspire readers concerned about the dramatic impact fast food has on our economy and our health.

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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

<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

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