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Reading Barbara Ehrenreich: This Land Is Their Land

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It's no secret that the gap between the haves and have-nots is now a chasm — what's less known are the lengths and depths that the haves go to in order to acquire more, no matter who suffers. For Barbara Ehrenreich, who sides with the have-nots in Nickel and Dimed, this is familiar terrain, and, in This Land Is Their Land, she tells how the America of this decade is a country of inequality and cruelty. She may be polemical, but she's also entertaining — Ehrenreich believes that the Woody Guthrie line that inspired the book's title wasn't "meant to be sung by a chorus of hedge-fund operators."

– John Hood

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