Reception
Schlosser's work has received positive reviews from across the political spectrum. William F. Buckley gave Reefer Madness a positive review, as did Business Week and the Financial Times. Fortune called Fast Food Nation the "Best Business Book of the Year" in 2001. Schlosser's work has been required reading for the entire incoming freshman class at Louisiana State University and Holy Cross.
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“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)