11-973: Surname list Schlosser is a German surname which can mean "locksmith", "machinist", or "metal worker". Notable people with the surname include: Eric Schlosser (born 1959), American journalist and writer Friedrich Christoph Schlosser (1776–1861), German historian Herbert Schlosser (1926–2021), American television executive Imre Schlosser (1889–1959), Hungarian footballer John F. Schlosser (1839–?), New York state senator Julius von Schlosser (1866–1938), Austrian art historian Max Schlosser (zoologist) (1854–1932), German zoologist and paleontologist Merle Schlosser (1926–1993), American football player and coach See also [ edit ] Fort Schlosser , fortification built in New York state around 1760 58896 Schlosser , asteroid Schlösser [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
22-634: A Master of Letters in British Imperial History from Oriel College, Oxford . He tried playwriting, writing two plays, Americans (1985) and We the People (2007). He is married to Shauna Redford, daughter of actor Robert Redford . Schlosser started his career as a journalist with The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts . He quickly gained recognition for his investigative pieces , earning two awards within two years of joining
33-527: A book on the American prison system , which has been over 10 years in the making. Schlosser appeared in an interview for the DVD of Morgan Spurlock 's Super Size Me , having a one-on-one discussion with the filmmaker about the fast-food industry . He did not appear in the film itself. He was interviewed by Franny Armstrong in 2005 and is a feature interviewee in her film McLibel . Schlosser appeared in
44-497: A former Wall Street lawyer who turned to broadcasting later in his career, eventually becoming president of NBC in 1974 and later becoming a vice president of RCA . Schlosser graduated with an A.B. in history from Princeton University in 1982 after completing a 148-page-long senior thesis titled "Academic Freedom during the McCarthy Era: Anti-Communism , Conformity and Princeton." He then earned
55-787: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Eric Schlosser Eric Matthew Schlosser (born August 17, 1959) is an American journalist and food writer . He is known for his books Fast Food Nation (2001), Reefer Madness (2003), and Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (2013). Schlosser was born in New York City, New York ; he spent his childhood there and in Los Angeles, California . His parents are Judith (née Gassner) and Herbert Schlosser ,
66-495: The fast food industry . Fast Food Nation evolved from a two-part article in Rolling Stone . The book won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Nonfiction. Schlosser helped adapt his book into a 2006 film directed by Richard Linklater . The film opened November 19, 2006. Chew On This (2006), co-written with Charles Wilson, is an adaptation of the book for younger readers. Fortune called Fast Food Nation
77-878: The surname Schlosser . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. v t e Surnames associated with the occupation of locksmith Germanic Schlosser , Kramp , Krampe Romance Serrurier Fabbro , Cerrajero Chaveiro, Lăcătuș Slavic Slesar Slesarev Zámečník Ślusarz Other Lakatos Lukkoseppä lukksepp Atslēdznieks Šaltkalvis Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Schlosser&oldid=1198784853 " Categories : Surnames German-language surnames Occupational surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
88-518: The "Best Business Book of the Year" in 2001. His 2003 book Reefer Madness discusses the history and current trade of marijuana , the use of migrant workers in California strawberry fields , and the American pornography industry and its history. William F. Buckley gave Reefer Madness a favorable review, as did BusinessWeek . Schlosser's book Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons,
99-401: The 2008 documentary, Food, Inc. , and the 2023 sequel Food, Inc. 2 with Michael Pollan . Schlosser also served as co-executive producer on the 2007 film There Will Be Blood . In 2014, he was an executive producer of the farmworker documentary Food Chains , a credit he shared with Eva Longoria . They both won a James Beard Foundation Award for their roles. Schlosser also shared
110-516: The Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety was published in September 2013. It focuses on the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion , a non-nuclear explosion of a Titan II missile near Damascus, AR . The New Yorker ' s Louis Menand called it "excellent" and "hair-raising" and said that " Command and Control is how nonfiction should be written." It was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for History . He has been working on
121-701: The staff: he won the National Magazine Award for his reporting in his two-part series "Reefer Madness" and "Marijuana and the Law" ( The Atlantic Monthly , August and September 1994), and he won the Sidney Hillman Foundation award for his article "In the Strawberry Fields" ( The Atlantic Monthly , November 19, 1995). Schlosser wrote Fast Food Nation (2001), an exposé on the unsanitary and discriminatory practices of
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