Ebook: The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Author: Matt Taibbi
- Tags: Social justice, United States, Income distribution, United States, Rich people, United States, Poor, United States, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Income distribution, Poor, Rich people, Social justice, United States
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- City: United States
- Language: English
- epub
Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles. -- The Divide,? Through astonishing?and enraging?accounts of the high-stakes capers of the wealthy and nightmare stories of regular people caught in the Divide?s punishing logic, Taibbi lays bare one of the greatest challenges we face in contemporary American life: surviving a system that devours the lives of the poor, turns a blind eye to the Read more...
Abstract: -- Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles. -- The Divide,? Through astonishing?and enraging?accounts of the high-stakes capers of the wealthy and nightmare stories of regular people caught in the Divide?s punishing logic, Taibbi lays bare one of the greatest challenges we face in contemporary American life: surviving a system that devours the lives of the poor, turns a blind eye to the destructive crimes of the wealthy, and implicates us all. --? --? --? --?The New York Times Book Review? "Matt Taibbi is (Hunter S.) Thompson?s heir. ... (Griftopia From the Hardcover edition