Barbara Ehrenreich�s first book of satirical commentary, The Worst Years of Our Lives, about the Reagan era,
was received with bestselling acclaim. The one problem was the title: couldn�t some prophetic fact-checker have
seen that the worst years of our lives�far worse�were still to come? Here they are, the 2000s, and in This Land
Is Their Land, Ehrenreich subjects them to the most biting and incisive satire of her career.
Taking the measure of what we are left with after the cruelest decade in memory, Ehrenreich finds lurid extremes
all around. While members of the moneyed elite can buy congressmen, many in the working class can barely buy lunch.
While a wealthy minority obsessively consumes cosmetic surgery, the poor often go without health care for their
children. And while the corporate C-suites are now nests of criminality, the less fortunate are fed a diet of morality,
marriage, and abstinence. Ehrenreich�s antidotes are as sardonic as they are spot-on: pet insurance for your kids;
Salvation Army fashions for those who can no longer afford Wal-Mart; and boundless rage against those who have
given us a nation scarred by deepening inequality, corroded by distrust, and shamed by its official cruelty.