This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation Audiobook (Free)

Barbara Ehrenreich’s 1st publication of satirical commentary, The Worst type of Many years of Our Lives, which was about the Reagan era, was received with bestselling acclaim. The one problem was the name: couldn’t some prophetic fact-checker have observed which the worst many years of our lives-far worse-were still to come? Here these are, the 2000s, and in This Land Is Their Land, Ehrenreich subjects them to probably the most biting and incisive satire of her profession.

Taking the measure of what we are still left with following the about This Get Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation cruelest decade in memory, Ehrenreich discovers lurid extremes all around. While members from the moneyed elite can purchase congressmen, many in the functioning class can hardly buy lunch time. While a wealthy minority obsessively consumes plastic surgery, the poor frequently go without healthcare for their kids. And while the corporate C-suites are actually nests of criminality, the much less fortunate are given a diet of morality, marriage, and abstinence. Ehrenreich’s antidotes are as sardonic because they are spot-on: family pet insurance for your kids; Salvation Army fashions for those who can no longer afford Wal-Mart; and boundless rage against those who have given us a country scarred by deepening inequality, corroded by distrust, and shamed by its official cruelty.