

Uneasy Street
The Anxieties of Affluence
Author: Rachel Sherman
Narrator: Liz Thompson
Unabridged: 9 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 09/05/2017
Author: Rachel Sherman
Narrator: Liz Thompson
Unabridged: 9 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 09/05/2017
Wow, I learned a lot from this book. In Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence, Rachel Sherman interviews a bunch of super rich people living in New York City about their wealth and how they experience it. She draws a lot of intelligent, astute observations from the interviews. At the same time,......more
Originally published in 2017, Rachel Sherman's nonfiction book, "Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence," was not a book I enjoyed reading. At all. This is a book about how the upper-middle class and upper class perpetuate systemic inequality. They do this through voting choices, lifestyle decisio......more
By the time I finished reading the first page, I was overcome with the feeling that something was missing. Oh, right, it's that my expectations have been warped by the way we discuss the rich in popular culture. Rachel Sherman didn't write this book with the purpose of making fun of the upper class.......more