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The Divide : American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Taibbi, Matt; Crabapple, Molly is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST,  NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS A scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery: Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles. Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world’s wealth. The rich get massively richer. No one goes to jail. In search of a solution, journalist Matt Taibbi discovered the Divide, the seam in American life where our two most troubling trends—growing wealth inequality and mass incarceration—come together, driven by a dramatic shift in American citizenship: Our basic rights are now determined by our wealth or poverty. The Divide is what allows massively destructive fraud by the hyperwealthy to go unpunished, while turning poverty itself into a crime—but it’s impossible to see until you look at these two alarming trends side by side. In The Divide, Matt Taibbi takes readers on a galvanizing journey through both sides of our new system of justice—the fun-house-mirror worlds of the untouchably wealthy and the criminalized poor. He uncovers the startl

Who reads The Divide : American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap?

Author

Taibbi, Matt; Crabapple, Molly

Publisher

Spiegel & Grau

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812993424

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Science, Social Science

Rating

4.2 / 5 (2,918 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13