The Snarling Citizen: Essays

She's got guts. Barbara Ehrenreich bravely wades into the river of pop culture, eagerly swims through it, and comes out the other side able to explain it all in clear and clever prose. With the ever-surprising gifts of a true satirist, she takes on everything from gender wars to shooting wars to the obsession with O.J. And she even explains how Beavis and Butthead have brought us "a great gift to humankind" by introducing "prewatched television." The many smiles produced by Ehrenreich's observations can only be matched by the thoughts they provoke.