James Nimmo points us to an item at The Progressive about objections to Barbara Ehrenreich and her book Nickel and Dimed.
“When I was in Scandinavia last spring promoting “Nickel and Dimed,” interviewers kept asking me to tell them about the “debate” my book had provoked in the United States. I had to confess that it had provoked no debate at all, at least none that I had heard of. In fact, when my book was adopted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a reading for all incoming students in 2003, the administration expressed its conviction that it was a “relatively tame selection,” at least compared to last year’s choice — a collection of readings from the Koran. I was beginning to envy Michael Moore, whose publisher had cleverly boosted sales by attempting to suppress his book “Stupid White Men” in the wake of 9/11.
Then, early in July, I got a phone call…”
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