Had I Known
Collected Essays
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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.
©2020 Barbara Ehrenreich (P)2020 TwelveLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Maid
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Nothing
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Nickel and Dimed
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,604
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Hilarious and sincere
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With great originality and wit, Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to the nature of Socialism, from a comic yet profound discussion of naughty seaside postcards to a spirited defense of English cooking. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose, Orwell’s essays created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and continue to challenge, move, and entertain.
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Great Content; Would benefit from chapter names
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Happy-Go-Lucky
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Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he’s stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most.
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Why We Can't Sleep
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Generation X Chick
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Evicted
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- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Former Property Manager
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The Persuaders
- At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
- De: Anand Giridharadas
- Narrado por: Anand Giridharadas
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 290
The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people’s minds in order to change things. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. Anand Giridharadas takes us inside these movements and battles, seeking out the dissenters who continue to champion persuasion in an age of polarization. As the book’s subjects grapple with how to call out injustices while calling in those who don’t agree with them but just might one day, they point a way to healing, and changing, a fracturing country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everyone should read this book
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Poverty, by America
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- Narrado por: Dion Graham
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A testimonial based on facts and witness
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De: Matthew Desmond
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American Psychosis
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- De: David Corn
- Narrado por: Steven Jay Cohen
- Duración: 17 h y 32 m
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A fast-paced, rollicking, behind-the-scenes account of how the GOP since the 1950s has encouraged and exploited extremism, bigotry, and paranoia to gain power, American Psychosis offers listeners a brisk, can-you-believe-it journey through the netherworld of far-right irrationality and the Republican Party’s interactions with the darkest forces in America.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Important history poorly read
- De A. Hawley en 09-16-22
De: David Corn
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Trust the Plan
- The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
- De: Will Sommer
- Narrado por: Joe Knezevich
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 228
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The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, how it has gained a mainstream following among Republican lawmakers and ordinary citizens, the threat it poses to democracy, and how we can reach those who have embraced the conspiracy and are disseminating its lies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best one so far
- De joey carbo en 03-02-23
De: Will Sommer
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Rough Sleepers
- Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Tracy Kidder
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 187
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 149
After Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospital’s chief of medicine made a proposal: Would he defer a prestigious fellowship and spend a year helping to create an organization to bring health care to homeless citizens? That year turned into O’Connell’s life’s calling. Tracy Kidder spent five years following Dr. O’Connell and his colleagues as they work with thousands of homeless patients, some of whom we meet in this illuminating book.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I could not stop listening!
- De Paul en 01-28-23
De: Tracy Kidder
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Civilized to Death
- The Price of Progress
- De: Christopher Ryan
- Narrado por: Christopher Ryan
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending - balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in disarray. We hear some myths and lies so frequently that they feel like truths: Civilization is humankind’s greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Count your blessings. You’re lucky to be alive here and now. Civilized to Death counters the idea that progress is inherently good, arguing that the "progress" defining our age is analogous to an advancing disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I couldn't stop listening.
- De Andrew in Ohio en 10-08-19
De: Christopher Ryan
Reseñas de la Crítica
“Barbara Ehrenreich has committed her life to writing in defense of women, immigrants, people of color, people in the LGBTQ+ community, people who are homeless, minimum-wage workers, and those who can’t even aspire to that luxury. Often prescient, her essays in this latest collection span several decades, explaining how we got to where we are today. A brave and brilliant thinker, she is most remarkable for reminding us how to be human in savage times. HAD I KNOWN is a dazzling tribute to Ehrenreich’s unwavering commitment to that cause, her mastery of craft, and an expansive and exceptional career centering on the art of the essay.”—PEN Awards
"The strange and frightening world we suddenly find ourselves living in is one Ehrenreich has warned about for decades...Her scathing take feels all but prophetic now."—The Washington Post
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- Mapache
- 06-01-24
So funny and prescient
Her satire is beyond compare, had me in stitches, and many of the older pieces are quite prescient in retrospect and aren’t available anywhere on the internet. I know, because I kept trying to find the individual articles to send to friends
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- W. Carillion
- 10-13-24
Brilliant, of course
Such a genius. Wealth of empathy and the understanding of the everyday struggles. Many topics are covered. All important.
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