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Also by Eric Schlosser:

Command and Control, January 2013
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Chew On This, May 2006
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The Jungle, April 2006
Trade Size (reprint)
Fast Food Nation, July 2005
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Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser

The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

HarperCollins
July 2005
416 pages
ISBN: 0060838582
Paperback
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Non-Fiction

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.

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