Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser - ISBN: 9780241766064
Paperback
Fast food’s hidden costs: health, environment, and corporate power revealed.

Fast Food Nation

The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

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  • Paperback

    544 pages

  • Release Date

    14 April 2026

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Summary

A new anniversary edition of Eric Schlosser’s international bestselling expose of how the fast food industry has shaped the world.

“The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power.”

This landmark work of reportage exposed how a handful of fast-food giants came to dominate America and remake the world in their image—eroding …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241766064
ISBN-10:0241766060
Author:Eric Schlosser
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:544
Release Date:14 April 2026
Weight:362g
Dimensions:196mm x 131mm x 25mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Eric Schlosser changed the way we ate * Guardian *
Intelligent, impeccably researched, terrifyingly detailed * The Times *
Fast Food Nation lifted the polystyrene lid on the global fast food industry … and sparked a storm * Observer *
Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism * Daily Telegraph *
Schlosser’s reportage is as good as it gets * GQ *
Schlosser has a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling facts * Los Angeles Times *

About The Author

Eric Schlosser

Eric Schlosser is the author of Fast Food Nation (2001), Reefer Madness (2003), Command and Control (2013), and Gods of Metal (2015). Command and Control was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. Two of his plays, Americans and We the People, have been staged in London. He is currently at work on a book about prisons.

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