On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic

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In this book, Dana Simmons explores the enduring production of hunger in US history. Hunger, in the modern United States, became a technology—a weapon, a scientific method, and a policy instrument. During the nineteenth century, state agents and private citizens colluded in large—scale campaigns of ethnic cleansing using hun...