Eric Schlosser
Autor/a de Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Sobre l'autor
Eric Schlosser, a contributing editor at the Atlantic Monthly, won a National Magazine Award for an article he wrote on strawberry picking for that magazine. His work has been nominated for several other National Magazine Awards and for the Loeb Award for business journalism. (Publisher Provided) mostra'n més Award-winning journalist Eric Schlosser is a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly. His first book, Fast Food Nation, has been on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year (hardcover and paperback combined) and has appeared on the bestseller lists of the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly, among others. Schlosser has appeared on 60 Minutes, CNN, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, FOX News, The O'Reilly Factor, and Extra!, and has been interviewed on NPR and for Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, and the New York Times. He is currently at work on a book about the American prison system. (Publisher Provided) Writer Eric Schlosser was born in Manhattan, New York on August 17, 1959. He received a bachelor's degree in American History from Princeton University and a graduate degree in British Imperial History from Oxford University. His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The Nation and The New Yorker. He has won numerous awards for his investigative journalism including the National Magazine Award and the Sidney Hillman Foundation award. His books include Fast Food Nation, which was adapted into a 2006 film; Reefer Madness; and the children's book Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food. He also wrote the bestselling nonfiction book, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Obres de Eric Schlosser
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (2013) 1,293 exemplars
Food, Inc. 3 exemplars
Probable Cause 1 exemplars
Obres associades
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Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Schlosser, Eric Matthew
- Data de naixement
- 1959-08-17
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Llocs de residència
- New York, USA
UK
California, USA - Educació
- Princeton University (BA |1982| History)
Oxford University (MA | history | Oriel College) - Professions
- journalist
non-fiction writer - Relacions
- Redford, Shauna (wife)
- Organitzacions
- The Atlantic Monthly
- Premis i honors
- National Magazine Award
Sidney Hillman Foundation award - Agent
- Tina Bennett (Janklow & Nesbit Associates)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 15
- També de
- 6
- Membres
- 16,798
- Popularitat
- #1,338
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 270
- ISBN
- 121
- Llengües
- 16
- Preferit
- 9
Schlosser makes it quite clear that there is an incredible profusion of nuclear devices all around us. With brutal, in your face, clarity Schlosser provides a disconcerting tour into the insane, even macabre world of MAD (mutually assured destruction) that thoroughly disillusions us of any false notions we may have held prior as to the perceived safety of nuclear weapons or trust in the people that store and handle such weapons. No matter how so-called foolproof our safety measures are supposed to be, it is in the nature of things that all the fail-safes smart minds may install will, sooner or later, be overwhelmed by the sheer infinite foolishness of average men or by unforeseeable circumstances. Once you have read about the irresponsible and ignorant behavior of some of the weapons handlers, I believe you may agree with the prior statement.
Command and Control is so informative that even if you consider yourself reasonably well-read on the topic, you may learn a thing or two - to express it mildly. For its scope is encompassing, and at the same time it manages to be incredibly detailed and thorough.
Until such time I am taught better, I dare say this is the eminent work on the subject of nuclear bomb safety and chain of command - period.… (més)