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Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: International Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Society & Culture, Adult, New Releases
ISBN: 9780241766064
Published: March 2026
Page Extent: 544
Format: Paperback
RRP 345.00

Fast Food Nation

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About the book

'Eric Schlosser changed the way we ate' Guardian

'Irresistible . . . frighteningly convincing . . . channelling the spirits of Upton Sinclair and Rachel Carson' San Francisco Chronicle

'The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power.'

This landmark work of reportage exposed how a handful of fast-food giants came to dominate America and remake the world in their image: eroding wages, damaging consumers' health and wrecking the environment. From talking to workers at meatpacking plants with shocking safety records to revealing the tactics used to target ever-younger...

About the Author

Eric Schlosser

Eric Schlosser

Eric Schlosser is the author of Fast Food Nation (2001), Reefer Madness (2003), Command and Control (2013), and Gods of Metal (2015). Command and Control was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. Two of his plays, Americans and We the People, have been staged in London. He is currently at work on a book about prisons.

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