The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do about It

by Barbara Ehrenreich and Catherine Besteman

Book Overview

Americans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated communities in record numbers, fearing for their jobs and their 401(k)s, nervous about their health insurance and their debt levels, worrying about terrorist attacks and immigrants. In this innovative volume, editors Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman gather essays from nineteen leading ethnographers to create a unique portrait of an anxious country and to furnish valuable insights into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520259718
• ISBN13: 9780520259713
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.0"