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Barbara Ehrenreich

Biography

Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich was the author of over a dozen books, including the New York Times bestselling NICKEL AND DIMED and NATURAL CAUSES. She passed away on September 1, 2022 at the age of 81.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Books by Barbara Ehrenreich

by Barbara Ehrenreich - Memoir, Nonfiction

In middle age, Barbara Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence and set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of uncanny --- or, as she later learned to call them, "mystical" --- experiences. A staunch atheist and rationalist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her life-long search.

by Barbara Ehrenreich - History, Nonfiction

In the acclaimed Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich delved into the origins of our species' attraction to war. Here, she explores the opposite impulse, one that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Original, exhilarating, and deeply optimistic, Dancing in the Streets concludes that we are innately social beings, impelled to share our joy and therefore able to envision, even create, a more peaceable future.