Had I Known, Barbara Ehrenreich
Had I Known, Barbara Ehrenreich
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Had I Known
Collected Essays

Author: Barbara Ehrenreich

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Unabridged: 10 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Twelve

Published: 03/24/2020


Synopsis

Winner of the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, HAD I KNOWN contains the most provocative, incendiary, and career-making pieces by bestselling author, essayist, political activist, and "veteran muckraker" Barbara Ehrenreich (The New Yorker).

A self-proclaimed "myth buster by trade," Barbara Ehrenreich has covered an extensive range of topics as a journalist and political activist, and is unafraid to dive into intellectual waters that others deem too murky. Now, Had I Known gathers the articles and excerpts from a long-ranging career that most highlight Ehrenreich's brilliance, social consciousness, and wry wit.

From Ehrenreich's award-winning article "Welcome to Cancerland," published shortly after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, to her groundbreaking undercover investigative journalism in Nickel and Dimed, to her exploration of death and mortality in the New York Times bestseller, Natural Causes, Barbara Ehrenreich has been writing radical, thought-provoking, and worldview-altering pieces for over four decades. Her reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review, among others, while her essays, op-eds and feature articles have appeared in the New York Times, Harper's Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, Time, the Wall Street Journal, and many more. Had I Known pulls from the vast and varied collection of one of our country's most incisive thinkers to create one must-have volume.

Author Bio

Barbara Ehrenreich is author of the 2002 New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. She has written nearly twenty books, and has been a columnist for Time magazine and the New York Times. She has contributed to The Progressive, Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, Ms., The New Republic, Z Magazine, In These Times, and salon.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paula

I love Barbara Ehrenreich, and while I haven't read all of her books, I've read most of them (my favorite being "Nickeled and Dimed") but NOT many of her published articles. So for me, this was mostly all new essays with which I was unfamiliar. Yes, they have all been published elsewhere, and yes th......more

Przyznaję bez bicia - nie czytałam wcześniej nic z tego, co napisała Barbara Ehrenreich, więc "Gdybym wiedziała", czyli zbiór najsłynniejszych esejów autorki stał się naturalnym pierwszym spotkaniem z jej twórczością. Teksty pisane na przestrzeni 40 lat, umieszczane w wielu czasopismach, dotykają ró......more

Goodreads review by Tanja

A collection of essays spanning about 30 years, on what is wrong with the United States of America. The author went on an experiment to live a month as a low-wage worker, for example. Not even then, in the 90’s, was it possible to get by on one minimum wage job. The minimum wage has not increased, b......more

Goodreads review by Rachel

I love Barbara Ehrenreich's writing. This collection obviously has that spark, but I did not love it. One, most of the pieces are seriously dated. They range from 1984 to 2017, with pretty even distribution over the years. Sometimes I barely remembered the then-current events she was writing about. Tw......more

Goodreads review by Katie

A great encapsulation of the incisive, skeptical, wry, wide-ranging writings of Barbara Ehrenreich. Essays in here range from the mid-1980s to 2018, and cover a lot of ground: poverty and wealth inequality in America, gender and social dynamics, religion and culture, and the insidious qualities of p......more