|
|
|
Item Details
Title:
|
THE DIVIDE
AMERICAN INJUSTICE IN THE AGE OF THE WEALTH GAP |
By: |
Matt Taibbi |
Format: |
Paperback |
List price:
|
£14.99 |
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for
further information.
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN 10: |
1922247464 |
ISBN 13: |
9781922247469 |
Publisher: |
SCRIBE PUBLICATIONS |
Pub. date: |
5 June, 2014 |
Pages: |
448 |
Description: |
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. |
Synopsis: |
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. |
Publication: |
Australia |
Imprint: |
Scribe Publications |
Prizes: |
Short-listed for Goodreads Choice Best Nonfiction Book 2014
Short-listed for Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2015 |
Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
|
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr
A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|