![]() ![]() 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. ![]() The Divide is what allows massively destructive fraud by the h yperwealthy to go unpunished, while turning poverty itself into a crime-bu t it's impossible to see until you look at these two alarming trends side b y side. ![]() In search of a solution, journalist Matt Taibbi discovered the Divide, the seam in American life where our two most troubling trends-growing wealth i nequality and mass incarceration-come together, driven by a dramatic shift in American citizenship: Our basic rights are now determined by our wealth or poverty. Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world's wealth. 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. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. ![]() A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. ![]()
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