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'Breadline USA' Examines the Reality of Hunger in Americanew
America's No. 1 health problem, the media relentlessly tell us, is obesity. Americans eat too much and we're the fattest people in the world. Except that, according to Sasha Abramsky, many Americans go hungry on a regular basis. And even many of those who aren’t hungry today suffer from what experts have taken to calling "food insecurity."
Sacramento News & Review |
Kel Munger |
07-23-2009 |
Nonfiction
'American Furies': Heartbreak Hotelnew
The politics and folly of criminal justice are familiar ground for Abramsky, and his latest book is not a riveting tale -- its value lies in making us consider why we do what we do, how we came to this point, and why it's important to trace history's longer arcs.
The Texas Observer |
Stayton Bonner |
08-13-2007 |
Nonfiction
