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Title: Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class by Barbara Ehrenreich ISBN: 0-06-097333-1 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 26 September, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A thoughtful rumination on the American class system
Comment: It's very easy for a book on a topic like this to be a lot of fluff, facts molded to fit perhaps outdated ideological frameworks and that sort of thing. This book is not like that, it's a thoughtful analysis of the American "professional-managerial middle class" in the late 20th century. It was also not a boring read, at least not for me. Whether she has analyzed things correctly or not I don't know, she does have some good insights and I agree with her judgements on certain topics like on the "silent majority". I also enjoyed her book "Nickled and Dimed". Thomas Frank of The Baffler gives very high praise for this book, I think he even said everything he has written after reading it is just footnotes to this book. He is a good writer as well so that is quite a compliment.
Rating: 5
Summary: Piercing the narrative, telling the truth
Comment: I hope that with the success of her acid dipped expose of what's really going on in the marketplace of the working poor( Nickel and Dimed) all of Barbara Ehrenreich's books will be back in print because she is a species of writer on the verge of extinction. Unabashedly pro union and anti compassionate conservatism and faith based charity and decidedly not glamorous in her pursuit of topics and people to interview she does the grind work of looking statistics in the eye and debunking some of our more vigorously pandered myths. This volume in particular does a fantastic job in holding a mirror up to the paranoias and greed of the middle class who suspects every contrarian to be after what they have accrued and fenced in and considers its possessions and spouses( is that one category or two?) its natural born right as long as the community is drawn with an infantile crayon and nobody knows who works the sewers.
It illustrates a society where everyone wants to purchase their own fringes of good taste, the rich beg more than the poor because they can always afford the bail for atonement and where every transgression spawns a fresh bombardment of analysts trying to mine the national soul, subtlety is never profitable medicine and the chosen few worry about the calories in walnut raspberry dressing. In the honored tradition of Studs Terkel Ms Ehrenreich points out that there is one airwave for the brash winners, the losers of all stripes remain unseen unless they are truly interesting criminals but the large portion of the silent middle class is stuck in a morass of anger, fear and wall building to leave everybody out who can't be labelled with a corporate golf pass, a church membership or a Neiman Marcus preferred customer I.D. The result is that they have mortgaged about every particle of their humanity to one vendor or another.
Rating: 5
Summary: The truth hurts
Comment: Right on the money sad but true.Well researched and documented. Should make people think about the world we are creating. It's too bad the people who won't read this book are the ones that should. We take too much and give too little.
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Title: The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed by Barbara Ehrenreich ISBN: 0060973846 Publisher: HarperCollins (paper) Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Hearts of Men : American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment by Barbara Ehrenreich ISBN: 0385176155 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 March, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: For Her Own Good : 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English ISBN: 0385126514 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 June, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich ISBN: 0805063897 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Re-Making Love : The Feminization Of Sex by Barbara Ehrenreich ISBN: 0385184999 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 18 August, 1987 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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