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The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Author:
Taibbi, Matt
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Class:
303.372
Age: Adult
Language: English
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LC: HM671
Print Run: 50000
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ISBN-13: 9780812993424
LCCN: 2013024907
Imprint: Spiegel & Grau
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Pub Date: 04/08/2014
Availability: Out of Print Confirmed
List: $27.00
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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xxiii, 416 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm
H 9.55",
W 6.4",
D 1.43",
1.4763 lbs.
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Brodart's Insight Catalog: Adult
Brodart's TOP Adult Titles
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Library Journal Bestsellers
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New York Times Bestsellers List
New York Times Bestsellers: Adult Nonfiction
Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction, 16th ed.
Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction, 17th ed.
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TIPS Subjects:
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Social Sciences/Sociology
Political Science
Finance
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BISAC Subjects: |
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness
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LC Subjects:
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General
Income distribution, United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National
Poor, United States
Rich people, United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness
Social justice, United States
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SEARS Subjects: |
Income, United States
Poor, United States
Rich, United States
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| Brodart's TOP Adult Titles | 12/01/2013 |
| If it feels like the wealthy are getting a free pass as the wealth gap widens, author Matt Taibbi says that's because it's true. Examine how the widening wealth gap is affecting America's justice system and surveillance measures. 448pp., 50K, Auth res: NY, Ill., Tour |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 03/01/2014 |
| Rolling Stone journalist Taibbi (Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America, 2010, etc.) once again rakes from the muck some most malodorous information about inequality in America. Readers with high blood pressure should make sure they've taken their medication before reading this devastating account of the inequality in our justice, immigration and social service systems. Taibbi's chapters are high-definition photographs contrasting the ways we pursue small-time corruption and essentially reward high-level versions of the same thing. Mixing case studies, interviews and anecdotes with comprehensive research on his topics, the author's effort should silence the sort of criticism that says, "Yes, those are horrible incidents and miscarriages of justice, but are they representative?" His answer, "Oh, yes!" Taibbi deals with the frisk-and-stop campaign in New York City, the 2008 financial collapse (he reminds us that no one went to jail for the egregious activities of the investment banks involved), the vast resources we allocate for pursuing, prosecuting and deporting illegal immigrants (mostly for petty behavior that pales in significance to that of the wolves of Wall Street), our horrendous persecution of people on food stamps and other public assistance, and the case of whistle-blower Linda Almonte, a well-paid employee for Chase Bank, which summarily fired her when she pointed out their unethical and illegal practices with their credit card holders. Taibbi does not tiptoe through his text. He believes many of our practices are characteristic of a "dystopia," and he calls Dick Fuld, a major banker, "one of the great assholes of all time" and illegal immigrants, "one of America's last great cash crops." Moreover, he is an equal-opportunity critic: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all wither under the intense sun of Taibbi's relentless scrutiny. Rising from the text is a miasma of corporate and political malfeasance and immorality that mocks the platitudes of democracy. 448pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2014. |
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| Library Journal Prepub Alert | 08/26/2013 |
| Those who know the work of Taibbi, a National Magazine Award winner, contributing editor for Rolling Stone, and author of New York Times bestsellers Griftopia and The Great Derangement, won't be surprised by his subject or the passion of his argument. He here argues that the widening gap between the rich one percent and the rest of us is not only reconfiguring our economy but our sense of justice, as one percenters act strictly in their own interest and everyone else risks stop-and-frisk. With a six-city tour to Boston, New York, Washington, DC, Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle. 432p. LJ Prepub Alert Online Review. LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2013. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 03/17/2014 |
| Rolling Stone journalist Taibbi (Griftopia) offers a scathing, accessible, and often riveting look at the U.S. finance industry and justice system. As Taibbi notes, violent crime dropped by 44% in the past two decades, yet prison populations and the poverty level have exploded. Meanwhile, Wall Street lurched from one scandal to the next, though no one was arrested. Taibbi traces the causes of this "bizarre statistical mystery" to elements including President Clinton's "third way" policies that pushed for welfare reform and deregulation of the finance industry; policing strategies that relied on arrests for minor violation; and Attorney General Eric Holder's originally tough-on-corporate-crime 1999 memo, "Collateral Consequences," that lists a "series of factors" the government might consider when deciding whether to charge a company. Two decades later, the decision to fine rather than prosecute the Swiss bank UBS for its role in the price-fixing LIBOR scandal was based on the impact it would have on financial markets. Taibbi interviews individuals who have endured New York City's stop-and-frisk policy, a punishing new welfare law in California, and other injustices, contrasting these accounts with the trials of financial insiders. Trenchant and sarcastic, Taibbi rails against the inequity of a system that jails people for petty crimes, rather than convicting "too-big-to-jail" bankers of mortgage fraud, interest rate mamipulation, money laundering, and drug trafficking. Illus. Agent: Lydia Wills, Lydia Wills LLC (Apr.). 448p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2014. |
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| New York Times Book Review | 04/13/2014 |
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