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In this collection of essays, her first since the best-selling The Worst Years of Our Lives, Barbara Ehrenreich delves into the soul of the 1990s in search of the American zeitgeist after "The Decade of Greed". What she finds is a sour passivity. Only a homicidal car-rental spokesman or penis-severing small-town manicurist can induce a brief outbreak of giddiness. The youthful, pumped-up look has given way to menopause chic, and our biggest hope for a national health program is that it will provide coverage for Dr. Jack Kevorkian's services. Even channel surfing may have to be automated soon if the current listlessness continues.

"An unrepentant liberal, she offers stinging commentaries on the status of women, the media attention lavished on O.J. Simpson and Lorena Bobbit, and the efforts of the religious right to turn the deist Founding Fathers into Christian zealots..."

Charles Solomon, Los Angeles Times Book Review, 04/21/1996

"She cuts a broad swath in her role of professional pain in the neck."

Nan Levinson, Women's Review of Books, October 1995

The Snarling Citizen: Essays: Search Results