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Fast Food Nation

  • Eric Schlosser

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To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar Amerca. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled the juggernaut of American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning.

Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from the California subdivisions where the business was born to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike where many of fast food's flavors are concocted. He hangs out with the teenagers who make the restaurants run and communes with those unlucky enough to hold America's most dangerous job -- meatpacker. He travels to Las Vegas for a giddily surreal franchisers' convention where Mikhail Gorbachev delivers the keynote address. He even ventures to England and Germany to clock the rate at which those countries are becoming fast food nations.

Along the way, Schlosser 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. He also uncovers the fast food chains' efforts to reel in the youngest, most susceptible consumers even while they hone their institutionalized exploitation of teenagers and minorities. Schlosser then turns a critical eye toward the hot topic of globalization -- a phenomenon launched by fast food.

FAST FOOD NATION is a groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that may change the way America thinks about the way it eats.

Genres

  • politics
  • health
  • current events
  • sociology
  • McDonald's
  • food
  • American cooking
  • social science
  • popular culture
  • cooking
  • feeding behavior
  • social aspects
  • foods
  • quality
  • trade marks
  • food industry
  • health hazards
  • food safety
  • Voedingsgewoonten
  • Fastfood
  • Health & Fitness
  • Media Studies
  • Industria y comercio
  • Restaurantes de comida rápida
  • Cookery
  • Cooking & Food
  • Nonfiction
  • Alimentos
  • Cuisine américaine
  • Fast food restaurants
  • Food industry and trade
  • Alimentos de conveniencia
  • Convenience foods
  • Food habits
  • Diet
  • Ernährungsgewohnheit
  • Ess- und Trinksitte
  • Ernährung
  • Fast Food
  • Lebensmittelindustrie
  • Lebensmittelfälschung
  • Convienience foods
  • Large type books
  • Comida de preparación rápida
  • Comida basura
  • Industria alimentaria
  • History
  • United states, social life and customs
  • Restaurants, united states
  • Restaurants-minute
  • Aliments
  • Industrie et commerce
  • Aliments précuisinés
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Diet in disease
  • Habitudes alimentaires
  • Cuisine
  • Régimes alimentaires
  • Recipes
  • Customs & Traditions
  • Agribusiness
  • Labor
  • Fast food restaurants--united states
  • Food industry and trade--united states
  • Convenience foods--united states
  • Fast foods
  • Diet, western
  • Nutritive value
  • Business & economics--industries--agribusiness
  • Business & economics--labor
  • Social science--popular culture
  • Snabbmatsrestauranger
  • Snabbmat
  • Fast food restaurants--history
  • Fast food restaurants--united states--history
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About the author

  • Eric Schlosser

    born August 17, 1959

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    45 ratings · 13 works

Editions

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    Penguin Books.

    Aug 21, 2002

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    Penguin

    2007

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    8th printing

    Penguin Books Ltd

    2002

  • Edition cover

    1st edition

    Harper Perennial

    January 8, 2002

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Rebound by Sagebrush

August 2001

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    Penguin Group UK

    2010

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    Abridged edition

    RH Audio

    January 8, 2002

  • Edition cover

    Harper Perennial

    July 5, 2005

  • Edition cover

    6th printing

    Houghton Mifflin

    2001

  • Edition cover

    Harper Perennial

    January 8, 2002

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    Autrement

    2003

  • Edition cover

    Tandem Library

    July 2005

  • Edition cover

    Largeprint edition

    Thorndike Press

    July 2001

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    Houghton Mifflin

    2001

  • Edition cover

    First Harper Perennial edition (6)

    Harper Perennial

    2006

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    Abridged edition

    Random House Audio

    May 4, 2004

  • Edition cover

    Tie-In edition (1)

    Harper Perennial

    2006

  • Edition cover

    1st Perennial ed. (8)

    Perennial, Harper Perennial

    2002

  • Edition cover

    Harper Perennial

    October 17, 2006

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    1st Mariner Books ed.

    Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Mariner Books

    2012

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    Harper Perennial

    2009

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    Riemann

    March 1, 2003

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    Riemann Verlag

    2002

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    HarperCollins Publishers

    2002

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    Scholastic Australia

    2009

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    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers

    2001

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    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers

    2001

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    Perfection Learning Corporation

    2011

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    Penguin Books, Limited

    2002

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    Penguin Books, Limited

    2002

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    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

    2001

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    1a ed.

    Grijalbo, Grupo Editorial Random House Mondadori

    2002

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    Sōshisha

    2001

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    Houghton Mifflin College Div

    April 2001

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    Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media

    November 2002

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    The Penguin Group

    2001

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    Houghton Mifflin

    2001