introduction to fast food nation by eric schlosser

“Schlosser has a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling facts,” writes the Los Angeles Times. His intensive library research and field work have established him as one of America's leading cultural critics. Schlosser offers an alternative view of what's happened in the United States in the last 30 years. Heralded as “society's quiet crusader,” he challenges people to think about such critical and often overlooked issues as food safety, workers' rights, the war on drugs, marketing to children and the epidemic of obesity. In his work, Schlosser, a correspondent for Atlantic Monthly since 1996 and a contributor to Rolling Stone and the New Yorker, investigates the hidden realms of American business and culture and their far-reaching effects on our lives. His eye is sharp, his profiles perceptive, his prose thoughtful but spare” ( read more here). The Washington Post describes Eric Schlosser as “part essayist, part investigative journalist. The event is free and open to the public. in Kresge Auditorium of the Performing Arts Center. Schlosser, whose latest book, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market, is earning rave reviews, will speak at 7:30 p.m. On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, Schlosser will visit the DePauw University campus to deliver a Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture. Eric Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation, which has been on the New York Times' best-seller list for 85 weeks, “created a national sensation from which McDonald's and its fellow burgermeisters are still reeling,” writes David Kipen in the San Francisco Chronicle. Fast Food Nation Author Eric Schlosser to Deliver Ubben Lecture November 11 October 10, 2003

Introduction to fast food nation by eric schlosser