The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles. -- The Divide,? Through astonishing?and enraging?accounts of the high-stakes capers of the wealthy and nightmare stories of regular people caught in the Divide?s punishing logic, Taibbi lays bare one of the greatest challenges we face in contemporary American life: surviving a system that devours the lives of the poor, turns a blind eye to the destructive crimes of the wealthy, and implicates us all. --? --? --? --?The New York Times Book Review? "Matt Taibbi is (Hunter S.) Thompson?s heir. ... (Griftopia From the Hardcover edition. 
Abstract: -- Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles. -- The Divide,? Through astonishing?and enraging?accounts of the high-stakes capers of the wealthy and nightmare stories of regular people caught in the Divide?s punishing logic, Taibbi lays bare one of the greatest challenges we face in contemporary American life: surviving a system that devours the lives of the poor, turns a blind eye to the destructive crimes of the wealthy, and implicates us all. --? --? --? --?The New York Times Book Review? "Matt Taibbi is (Hunter S.) Thompson?s heir. ... (Griftopia From the Hardcover edition