
Nacido: August 17, 1959 – New York City, New York, United States
Eric Schlosser is an American investigative journalist and nonfiction author who examines the hidden systems behind food, labor, punishment, and national security. He is best known for Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness, and Command and Control, works that broadened public debate on corporate power, prison labor, and nuclear risk.
Eric Schlosser emerged from a background shaped less by literary branding than by history, reporting, and stage work. He studied American history at Princeton, later pursued British imperial history at Oxford, and spent time in playwriting and at an independent film company before turning decisively toward investigative nonfiction. Princeton’s John McPhee was an important model for him, and that influence can be seen in the way Schlosser uses narrative to explain large institutions through concrete details. An early turning point came when editors recognized that he could take an everyday product or institution and trace the hidden labor, economics, and power structures behind it. ((https://www.conncoll.edu/commencement/previous-commencements/2015/keynote-speaker/))

Eric Schlosser
Gripping account of nuclear weapons accidents and near-misses, exposing the terrifying risks of America's atomic arsenal.

Eric Schlosser
A shocking exposé of the fast food industry's impact on American society, health, and culture, revealing unsavory truths behind convenient meals.

Eric Schlosser
Gripping account of nuclear weapons accidents and near-misses, exposing the terrifying risks of America's atomic arsenal.

Eric Schlosser
A shocking exposé of the fast food industry's impact on American society, health, and culture, revealing unsavory truths behind convenient meals.
"Eric Schlosser may be the Upton Sinclair for this age of mad cow disease"
— Los Angeles Times ((
"Eric Schlosser shows how the fast-food industry conquered both appetite and landscape"
— The New Yorker ((
"Eric Schlosser’s research and storytelling skills are remarkable"
— AudioFile ((
"You read Eric Schlosser to get mad"
— Los Angeles Times ((
"Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation is a good old-fashioned muckraking exposé"
— San Francisco Chronicle ((
"Eric Schlosser provides a view of the country and its people that is both rich and disturbing"
— Times Literary Supplement ((
"Schlosser could do for the fast food industry what Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring did for producers of pesticides"
— The Times ((
"Schlosser establishes a seminal argument for the true wrongs at the core of modern America"
— Publishers Weekly ((
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