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 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 prison population doubles.įraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world's wealth. Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery: Poverty goes up. Synopsis 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 “It’s total moral surrender”: Matt Taibbi unloads on Wall Street, inequality and our broken justice system. Matt Taibbi: America Has A 'Profound Hatred Of The Weak And The Poor'. Matt Taibbi's The Divide: incandescent indictment of the American justice-gap. Book Review: 'The Divide' by Matt Taibbi. Matt Taibbi rips into America's growing income gap in 'The Divide'. ‘The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap’ by Matt Taibbi. ^ READ: Matt Taibbi on 'The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap'.Government policies and the subprime mortgage crisis.The Los Angeles Times called the book 'advocacy journalism at its finest, an attempt to stir us up.' See also Taibbi argues that as a result of this divide, money has now redefined the meaning of justice, distorting the very notion of American citizenship and challenging the founding ideals of its nation. Published by Spiegel & Grau, the book illustrates the 'divide' by looking at the relationship between growing income inequality and the criminalization of poverty, as poor people are increasingly harassed, arrested and imprisoned for minor crimes in the U.S., sometimes for no actual crime at all, even as crime rates continue to plummet, resulting in a prison population that 'is now the biggest in the history of human civilization.' At the same time, Taibbi writes, white-collar criminals who continue to defraud the financial system avoid punishment, allowing them to accumulate even more wealth without fear of future prosecution. The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap is a 2014 non-fiction book by journalist Matt Taibbi about wealth inequality in the United States and its impact on the American conception of justice and the legal system.

2014 non-fiction book by Matt Taibbi about wealth inequality in the United States

The divide by matt taibbi