Alissa Quart Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Alissa Quart on XExec Director of @econhardship. Author of books like Bootstrapped, Squeezed and Branded. Forget the Horatio Alger Story. Instead try mutual aid.

House of Mirth
Edith WhartonThe Gilded Age is Edith Wharton for Histrionic Dummies. There's even a character named Bertha, like in House of Mirth. We are deprived too of the only beauty of Downton Abbey: that it was about the DOWNward slide of the upper class.
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Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
Alissa QuartTake a listen to my book interview with the great Joe Donahue, a must, especially for anyone in a car on 32....@eccobooks @econhardship @WAMCRadio @WAMCRoundtable @WAMCNews https://t.co/KUZaLYwSMs
Paperback, 2024
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The End of Policing
Alex S. VitaleThrilled that Ted Cruz further makes a fool of himself at this confirmation hearing by holding up my friend @avitale book The End of Policing for derision during the confirmation hearings today. Go Alex! https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1506345237840551943
Paperback, 2021
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Actual Air
David BermanConsider attending this David Berman celebration https://t.co/IB9FWRCQcX famed for Silver Jews but poet too I am one of the readers tonight celebrating his life and work @ElkhornMusic @astradisastra @natashalennard @mollycrabapple you all should come by. Brooklyn. @lucindaros
Hardcover, 2019
$29.98Member price:$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
Barbara Ehrenreich@thisone0verhere Nothing Left to Envy by Barbara Demick, Fear of Falling by Barbara Ehrenreich, Newjack by Ted Conover, Men We Reaped by @jesmimi, Random Family, Dispatches by Michael Herr, Love Thy Neighbor by @maassp, The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm
Paperback, 2020
$21.99Member price:$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
Janet Malcolm@thisone0verhere Nothing Left to Envy by Barbara Demick, Fear of Falling by Barbara Ehrenreich, Newjack by Ted Conover, Men We Reaped by @jesmimi, Random Family, Dispatches by Michael Herr, Love Thy Neighbor by @maassp, The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm
Hardcover, 1977
$108.00Member price:$102.60 + Free shipping5% off
Dispatches
Michael Herr@thisone0verhere Nothing Left to Envy by Barbara Demick, Fear of Falling by Barbara Ehrenreich, Newjack by Ted Conover, Men We Reaped by @jesmimi, Random Family, Dispatches by Michael Herr, Love Thy Neighbor by @maassp, The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm
Paperback, 1991
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew DesmondThanks @ALA_Booklist for this new and very kind review of Bootstrapped: "Quart picks at the threads of the American dream to reveal a richer tapestry...recommended for fans of Matthew Desmond’s Evicted... and Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bright-Sided." @eccobooks @econhardship @maassp
Paperback, 2017
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Liberating Ourselves: Attaining Personal Freedom to Release Creative Potential
Scott TeitsworthMy forthcoming book up on Goodreads, like a stage of human development for a book nowadays Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream by Alissa Quart @goodreads @eccobooks @econhardship https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58889115-bootstrapped
Paperback, 2016
$10.95Member price:$9.85 + Free shipping10% off
Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America
Barbara EhrenreichThanks @ALA_Booklist for this new and very kind review of Bootstrapped: "Quart picks at the threads of the American dream to reveal a richer tapestry...recommended for fans of Matthew Desmond’s Evicted... and Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bright-Sided." @eccobooks @econhardship @maassp
Paperback, 2010
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book