Description: Adam Chandler SIGNED Drive-Thru Dreams Fast Food 2019 First Edition HB w/GOA Up for bids is this 2019 first edition hardcover version of Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom which was written AND signed by Adam Chandler and is in VERY GOOD condition (NO reminder marks; NOT an ex-library book; NO punch holes).Guarantee of Authenticity (GOA) – We guarantee the authenticity of our SIGNED books and sports memorabilia, all of which have passed a rigorous 20-step authentication process used by forensic autograph analysts. We are so confident in our process that IF one of our SIGNED items fails authentication via Beckett, PSA or CGC, EJay Collectibles will provide you with a full refund plus an additional $10 to help offset the expensive authentication process.A Publishers Weekly Book of the Week“This is a book to savor, especially if you’re a fast-food fan.”―Bookpage"This fun, argumentative, and frequently surprising pop history of American fast food will thrill and educate food lovers of all speeds."―Publishers Weekly"Drive-Thru Dreams is one of my favorite food books ever." ―Ed Levine, founder of Serious Eats"Adam Chandler makes the case that our love for fast food is a defining part of American culture. I spent much of my childhood chasing Happy Meal toys and clamoring for Blizzards. If you did, too, this book’s for you." ― Brandon Canter, NPR"Eminently readable, smart, and fascinating, Drive-Thru Dreams is, belying its subject matter, a full meal." ―Entertainment Weekly"An entertaining treatise on how fast food has changed American culture, and been changed by it, Adam Chandler traces its history from the beginnings of White Castle to today." ―Business Insider"Before anyone casts judgment upon fast food, Chandler asks readers to take a much closer look at all the outcomes and influences of this industry, how these businesses both provide employment and act as equalizing venues of social interaction.... In Chandler’s version of the narrative, these corporate behemoths are still made up of people. He shares a host of anecdotes about some ever-fascinating individuals, from servers to CEO’s."―Booklist, starred review"The sprawling, silly, rigorous, empathetic pop history of fast food I've always wanted to read, executed more perfectly than I could have ever dreamed."―Helen Rosner"This book will completely change the way even the fiercest health advocate thinks about our nutritional landscape. There is no road to reform without understanding the ways fast food is woven into American history and culture, which Adam Chandler articulates brilliantly."―James Hamblin, M.D., author of If Our Bodies Could Talk"Driven by relentless curiosity, a sharp mind, and an honest affection for America’s fast food, Drive-Thru Dreams splits the difference between structural analysis and charming storytelling, and makes a compelling case that to understand fast food is to understand America. Whether chronicling the industry’s birth among rags-to-riches pioneers or tracing the startling symbiosis between social media and fast food sales, Chandler brings our understanding of fast food into the twenty-first century."―Tracie McMillan, author of The American Way of Eating"Drive-Thru Dreams creatively and playfully explores how fast food has shaped―and continues to shape―America, daring to posit that perhaps the relationship between Americans and its franchised food establishments has been mutually beneficial. We see how fast food can be both a great equalizer in American society and a source of strife and class differentiation. I couldn’t help but be inspired by Chandler’s thoughtful account of this uniquely American phenomenon."―Jeffrey Yoskowitz, co-author of The Gefilte Manifesto"Drive-Thru Dreams is a key text to understanding the American love affair with fast food and the culture around it, including its economic impact and fandoms. This spicy and humorous narrative feels personal while writing the necessary chapter of what may be, for good or ill, some of America's most consumed chow. Brilliant and necessary."―Michael Twitty, James Beard Award winning author of The Cooking Gene"On the page, terrific writers know how to have their cake (or their Big Mac) and eat it, too. Adam Chandler is such a writer, and Drive-Thru Dreams, his account of the wild and inalienable wonderland of American fast food, gives us not just insight and history but a pleasure that is downright gustatory."― Vijay Seshadri, Pulitzer Prize winning author of 3 Sections"Adam Chandler puts the country on a griddle with his juicy defense of that much-maligned national obsession, fast food. It’s a delicious full-item, be-pickled feast of high calorie Americana―including dad jokes. What a book! I’m hungry!"―Nicholas Dawidoff, author of The Catcher Was a Spy and The Crowd Sounds Happy
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Modification Description: This hardcover book is SIGNED by author Adam Chandler
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
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Subject: Biography & Autobiography
Edition: First Edition
Book Title: Drive-Thru Dreams : a JOURNEY Through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom
Item Length: 8.5in.
Item Height: 0.9in.
Item Width: 5.7in.
Author: ADAM Chandler
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Customs & Traditions
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Publication Year: 2019
Genre: Business & Economics, Social Science
Item Weight: 13.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
