Matt Taibbi

Fueled by in-depth reporting, an investigative journalist and New York Times best-selling author explores America's widening wealth gap that is not only reshaping our economic life, but changing our core sense of right and wrong. 50,000 first printing.

American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

The Divide

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An infuriating look at the growing discrepancies in America's justice system, especially in regards to multi-national, "too big to fail" corporations and banks, and individuals who don't have a fraction of the resources and wealth of these entities.

Taibbi is a wonderful writer, but boo for NO FOOTNOTES. This isn't a magazine, so I was expecting at least a bibliography or heck even a recommended reading list. Tsk tsk.

Other then that I did find this illuminating. The book made me angry and it made me think. I did find myself glossing over the chapters that spent the majority of time discussing the massive fraud cases perpetrated by banks and their ilk, as it often got very technical and went over my head. Ironic, as this is often how they avoid jail-time and criminal charges. 

The text shone when Taibbi kept hammering home the point that America is making basic rights a sliding scale, and those on the bottom are going to be the victims because they have the least to fight back. His thesis that crime is crime, and it should all be prosecuted equally, is effective and starkly frightening.

CITATIONS. The end.

The Divide American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

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