Mikhail Gorbachev (March 2, 1931-August 30, 2022) was the last president of the U.S.S.R., whose efforts to revitalize his country's lagging economy and to advance a staid communist bureaucracy through the introduction of "glasnost" (openness) led to the fall of the Iron Curtain, the breakup of the Soviet Union, and an end to the Cold War. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev addresses the United Nations in New York City, December 1988. Realism, I would call that," she replied. "The alternative is to try to see the world as it is more. "Is the alternative to positive thinking to be negative or pessimistic or fatalistic?" asked Braver. In her book "Bright-Sided," she argued that the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America. "It's wrong because it's not true!" Ehrenreich laughed. "Well, what's wrong with that attitude? A lot of people have it," said Braver. In 2011 Ehrenreich, who's gone through a grueling bout with breast cancer, talked with "Sunday Morning" correspondent Rita Braver about her resistance to the notion of "positive thinking" being a determinant of one's experience, which she characterized as, "If things don't go well, if you get sick, or if you lose your job, or fall into poverty, it must be your fault because you weren't sending the right thoughts out into the universe." Other books included "Long March, Short Spring: The Student Uprising at Home and Abroad" (written with her then-husband, John Ehrenreich) "Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class" "The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed" "This Land is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation" "Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War" "Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything" and "Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer." To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone else." She wrote, "They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high.
She authored or co-authored 23 books, her most famous being 2001's "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America," in which she recounted taking on minimum-wage jobs (such as a hotel maid, waitress, cleaning woman, and Wal-Mart sales clerk), and moving into cheap lodging, to find out firsthand about the lives and struggles of the working poor – people she dubbed "the major philanthropists of our society." She became more involved in the feminist movement following the birth of her daughter, Rosa, she explained, as she was appalled by her hospital's treatment of patients. The Associated Press contributed to this gallery.Ī prolific writer of articles for The Nation, The New York Times, Harper's, Vogue and others, activist Barbara Ehrenreich (August 26, 1941-September 1, 2022) was a teacher and researcher (she received a Ph.D. | Tom Williams/Roll Call/Getty ImagesĪ look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.īy senior producer David Morgan. Barbara Ehrenreich, author of "Nickel and Dimed," moderates a press conference on low-wage workers and the effects of the economic crisis, April 22, 2009.
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