Barbara Ehrenreich, an author and essayist who picked apart the myths of the American Dream with books that included a firsthand struggle to live on minimum wage in Nickel and Dimed and a rebuke of by-the-bootstraps optimism in Bright-Sided, died Sept. 1 at a hospice center in Alexandria, Va. She was 81. In 2005 she visited the John Adams. Click below for the video.
Barbara Ehrenreich dies at 81
Barbara Ehrenreich, an author and essayist who picked apart the myths of the American Dream died Sept. 1. She was 81. In 2005 she visited the John Adams to discuss her book Nickel and Dimed – On (not) getting by in America. Click here for the video.
