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Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of "This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation." She won the 2004 Puffin/Nation Prize. Her seventeenth book, "Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America," was published in 2009.

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