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• Fast Food Nation spent 15 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

The story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though it was created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. It has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled the juggernaut of 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.

Each day, about one-quarter of the adults in the United States visit fast food restaurants, spending more than $112 billion dollars in the year 2001. Schlosser examines the franchise arrangement; the susceptibility of meat to harmful pathogens such as E. coli; the dangerous working conditions in American slaughterhouses; and many other serious nutritional, environmental, and cultural questions. Fast Food Nation is a groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that has changed the way America thinks about the way it eats.