Лучшие книги Эрика Шлоссера

Культовое исследование того, как устроена индустрия фастфуда. В 2001 году Эрик Шлоссер впервые опубликовал эту книгу, которая быстро стала международным бестселлером. В ней он показал, как индустрия фастфуда породила эпидемию ожирения, увеличивала разрыв между бедными и богатыми и изменила рынок продовольствия во всем мире. Эта книга изменила взгляды миллионов людей на фастфуд и питание. В послесловии к новому изданию книги Шлоссер рассуждает о растущем интересе к местным и органическим продуктам и продолжающейся эксплуатации работников пищевой индустрии. А само исследование автора остается актуальным и спустя десять лет. Оно поможет…

Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning. Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from California's subdivisions, where the business was born, to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike, where many of fast food's flavors are concocted. Along the way, he unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths -- from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate.

Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a missile silo in rural Arkansas, where a single crew struggled to prevent the explosion of the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States, with a historical narrative that spans more than fifty years. It depicts the urgent effort to ensure that nuclear weapons can't be stolen, sabotaged, used without permission, or detonated inadvertently. Schlosser also looks at the Cold War from a new perspective, offering history from the ground up, telling the stories of bomber pilots, missile commanders, maintenance crews, and other ordinary servicemen who…

Audacious, controversial and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey's masterpiece - a big, boisterous and unforgettable novel about freedom and commitment that ignited the flames of environmental activism. Throughout the vast American West, nature is being vicitimized by a Big Government / Big Business conspiracy of bridges, dams and concrete. But a motley gang of individuals has decided that enough is enough, A burnt-out veteran, a mad doctor and a polygamist join forces in a noble cause: to dismantle the machinery of progress through peaceful means, or otherwise.

America"s black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risque video, or pay our kids" nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his