The Divide: American injustice in the age of the wealth gap - Brossura

Matt Taibbi

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1922247464 ISBN 13: 9781922247469

Casa editrice: Scribe Publications, 2014

Riassunto

In The Divide, Matt Taibbi - the scourge of America's financial plutocrats - takes on his most important story yet. Written with forensic zeal and righteous rage, this is an exploration of an unprecedented wealth gap that is not just changing the US's economic life, but transforming the meaning of rights, justice, and basic citizenship. The wealthy 1 per cent operate with near impunity, protected by their class, their peers, and their system; however large and outrageous their crimes, they are hardly ever charged and rarely jailed. Meanwhile, everyone else finds their daily existence the subject of massive law-enforcement attention - from stop-and-frisk programs and the immigrant dragnet, to invasive surveillance and the abuse of debtors. Driven by immersive reporting, this is a stunning, enraging revelation of the newest high-stakes divide in the US: between a lawless aristocracy of hyperwealth and everyone else, living under the shadow of an incipient American police state.

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Recensione:

Matt Taibbi s genius is in untangling complex stories and making us care about them by providing striking moral clarity and a genuine sense of outrage. --Washington Post.

L'autore:

Matt Taibbi is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and the author of four previous books, including the New York Times bestseller The Great Derangement and Griftopia. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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• Editore: Scribe Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1922247464
• ISBN 13: 9781922247469
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432