- politics, health, current events, sociology
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.
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Plot-driven, contemporary, classical in form and epic.
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Eric Schlosser, Eric Schlosser
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 385
- Publisher
- Sifriyat poʻalim, Tandem Library, Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Editions
- 43
- Language
- Spanish, English, French, German
- ISBN
- 9780606246224
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“CARL N. KARCHER is one of the fast food industry's pioneers.”
Eric Matthew Schlosser is an American journalist and author known for investigative journalism, such as in his books Fast Food Nation (2001), Reefer Madness (2003), and Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (2013).
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