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Barbara Ehrenreich

Biography

Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of Nickel and Dimed, Blood Rites, The Worst Years of Our Lives (a New York Times bestseller), Fear of Falling, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and eight other books. A frequent contributor to Time, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Mirabella, The Nation, and The New York Times Magazine, she lives near Key West, Florida.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Books by Barbara Ehrenreich

Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
by Barbara Ehrenreich - Current Affairs, Nonfiction
Dancing In the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
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.

Bait And Switch: The (futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
by Barbara Ehrenreich - Current Affairs, Nonfiction
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich