Book Reviews of The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed

It's amazing how much light these essays shed on today's political scene. Barbara Ehrenreich is, as always, right on the mark.

Scandalously funny, furiously indigant, and full of old-fashioned populist affection for the underdog and the little guy, this collections of essays takes us back over the hight points of the eighties: when catsup was upgraded to the status of nutrient, when secular humanism was classified as a religiou cult, and when George Bush said of the federal deficit: 'I am from all these people as to what - not only what the situation is but what we can do about it.'
Ehrenreich goes after not only the Republican right, but also timid liberals, wishy-washy feminists, couch potatoes, and Yuppies, coming up with some surprising new information: that America is suffering not from a man shortage but a man exess, that the family is a threat to free enterprise, that there is a bright side to nuclear war.

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