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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 …

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.

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No cover — Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation (Hardcover, 2001, Houghton Mifflin)

Fast Food Nation

Hardcover, 356 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2001 by Houghton Mifflin.

ISBN:: 978-0-395-97789-7
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OCLC Number:: 45248356
Goodreads:: 77539

No cover — Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation (Hardcover, 2001, Thorndike Press)

Fast Food Nation

Hardcover, 624 pages

English language

Published July 6, 2001 by Thorndike Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-7838-9502-4
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OCLC Number:: 46678059

No cover — Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation (Paperback, 2005, Harper Perennial)

Fast Food Nation

Paperback, 383 pages

English language

Published July 5, 2005 by Harper Perennial.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-083858-4
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No cover — Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation tie-in (Paperback, 2006, Harper Perennial)

Fast Food Nation tie-in

Paperback, 399 pages

English language

Published Oct. 17, 2006 by Harper Perennial.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-116139-1
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No cover — Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation (Hardcover, 2005, Tandem Library)

Fast Food Nation

Library Binding, 363 pages

English language

Published July 6, 2005 by Tandem Library.

ISBN:: 978-1-4176-8717-6
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No cover — Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation (Paperback, 2001, Houghton Mifflin)

Fast Food Nation

Paperback

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2001 by Houghton Mifflin.

ISBN:: 978-0-9651883-8-8
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OCLC Number:: 256093135

No cover — Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation (2002, Harper Perennial)

Fast Food Nation

400 pages

English language

Published Jan. 8, 2002 by Harper Perennial.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-093845-1
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No cover — Eric Schlosser: Fast Food/ Fast Food Nation (Actualidad) (Paperback, Spanish language)

Fast Food/ Fast Food Nation (Actualidad)

Paperback, 479 pages

Spanish language

ISBN:: 978-84-9759-336-6
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No cover — Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation (Paperback, 2001, Houghton Mifflin)

Fast Food Nation

Paperback, 368 pages

Published Jan. 6, 2001 by Houghton Mifflin.

ISBN:: 978-0-7139-9602-9
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No cover — Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation (Paperback, 2002, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media)

Fast Food Nation

Turtleback

English language

Published Nov. 6, 2002 by Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media.

ISBN:: 978-0-606-24622-4
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No cover — Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation (Hardcover, 2001, Rebound by Sagebrush)

Fast Food Nation

School & Library Binding

English language

Published Aug. 6, 2001 by Rebound by Sagebrush.

ISBN:: 978-0-613-45139-0
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No cover — Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation (2001)

Fast Food Nation

400 pages

English language

Published March 13, 2001

ISBN:: 978-0-14-100687-1
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No cover — Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Gesellschaft (Hardcover, German language, 2002, Riemann Verlag)

Fast Food Gesellschaft

Hardcover

German language

Published Jan. 6, 2002 by Riemann Verlag.

ISBN:: 978-3-570-50023-1
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OCLC Number:: 57721341

No cover — Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Gesellschaft. Sonderausgabe. Fette Gewinne, faules System. (Paperback, German language, 2003, Riemann)

Fast Food Gesellschaft. Sonderausgabe. Fette Gewinne, faules System.

Paperback, 448 pages

German language

Published March 1, 2003 by Riemann.

ISBN:: 978-3-570-50043-9
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No cover — Eric Schlosser: Fast food nation (2012, Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Fast food nation

362 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2012 by Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

ISBN:: 978-0-547-75033-0
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