{"product_id":"had-i-known-collected-essays-9781455543694","title":"Had I Known: Collected Essays","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2021 PEN\/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eHAD I KNOWN contains the most provocative, incendiary, and career-making pieces by bestselling author, essayist, political activist, and \"veteran muckraker\" Barbara Ehrenreich (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA self-proclaimed \"myth buster by trade,\" Barbara Ehrenreich has covered an extensive range of topics as a journalist and political activist, and is unafraid to dive into intellectual waters that others deem too murky. Now, \u003ci\u003eHad I Known\u003c\/i\u003e gathers the articles and excerpts from a long-ranging career that most highlight Ehrenreich's brilliance, social consciousness, and wry wit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Ehrenreich's award-winning article \"Welcome to Cancerland,\" published shortly after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, to her groundbreaking undercover investigative journalism in \u003ci\u003eNickel and Dimed\u003c\/i\u003e, to her exploration of death and mortality in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller, \u003ci\u003eNatural Causes\u003c\/i\u003e, Barbara Ehrenreich has been writing radical, thought-provoking, and worldview-altering pieces for over four decades. Her reviews have appeared in the\u003ci\u003e New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among others, while her essays, op-eds and feature articles have appeared in the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and many more. \u003ci\u003eHad I Known\u003c\/i\u003e pulls from the vast and varied collection of one of our country's most incisive thinkers to create one must-have volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Ehrenreich \u003c\/b\u003e(1941-2022) was a bestselling author and political activist, whose more than a dozen books include \u003ci\u003eNatural Causes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiving with a Wild God\u003c\/i\u003e, the award winning essay collection\u003ci\u003e Had I Known\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNickel and Dimed\u003c\/i\u003e, which the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003edescribed as \"a classic in social justice literature.\" An award-winning journalist, she frequently contributed to \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTIME \u003c\/i\u003emagazine. Ehrenreich was born in Butte, Montana, when it was still a bustling mining town. She studied physics at Reed College and earned a Ph.D. in cell biology from Rockefeller University. Rather than going into laboratory work, she got involved in activism, and soon devoted herself to writing her innovative journalism.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Twelve","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50660215652626,"sku":"9781455543694","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_086c4f69-836c-4d15-9081-d00ba413fb0f.jpg?v=1733472664","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/had-i-known-collected-essays-9781455543694","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}