America is a grotesquely polarized society and becoming more so all
the time. In this razor-sharp, funny and terrifying collection of
pieces, Barbara Ehrenreich shows how the widening gap between rich
and poor over the past eight years has left the country
increasingly divided between the gated communities on the one hand
and the trailer parks and tenements on the other. She describes a
country where the super-rich travel by private jet, while low-paid
workers make multiple bus trips to get to their jobs; where a
wealthy minority obsessively consumes cosmetic surgery, while the
poor often go without basic health care for their children; where
members of the moneyed elite can buy congressmen, while a troubling
proportion of the working class can barely buy lunch. Ehrenreich
writes corruscatingly about the pay of CEOs, the treatment of
illegal immigrants, the way Wal-Mart spies on and interrogates its
employees, and the fact that in the US it's easier to get health
insurance for a pet than for a child. Going to Extremes brilliantly
anatomizes pre-Obama America: a nation scarred by deepening
equality and corroded by distrust.
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