The United States of Excess: Gluttony and the Dark Side of American Exceptionalism by Robert Paarlberg

The United States of Excess: Gluttony and the Dark Side of American Exceptionalism

Robert Paarlberg

235 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative medium-paced
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Compared to other wealthy countries, America stands out as a gluttonous over-consumer of both food and fuel. The United States boasts an obesity prevalence double the industrial world average, and per capita carbon emissions twice the average for ...

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