Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of many significant, entertaining, and well-received books, including “Nickel and Dimed: on Not getting by in America”, “Bait and Switch: the Futile Pursuit of the American Dream”, and “For Her own Good: 150 years of Expert’s Advice to Women”.
She returned to Portland on Wednesday to talk at Powell’s City of Books about her latest book “This Land is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation”.
Here are excerpts from her talk, as recorded by KBOO’s Ethan Scarl: