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The divide : American injustice in the age of the wealth gap / Matt Taibbi ; illustrations by Molly Crabapple.

By: Taibbi, Matt.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2014]Edition: First edition.Description: xxiii, 416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780812993424 (hardcover : acid-free paper).Subject(s): Social justice -- United States | Income distribution -- United States | Rich people -- United States | Poor -- United StatesDDC classification: 303.3/72
Contents:
Unintended consequences -- Frisk and stop -- The man who couldn't stand up -- The greatest bank robbery you never heard of -- Border trouble, part 1 -- Border trouble, part 2 -- Little frauds -- Big frauds -- Collateral consequences.
Summary: Examines America's widening wealth gap, which is reshaping our economic life, and changing our core sense of right and wrong. A lawless aristocracy of hyperwealth comprising 1% of the population operate with near impunity, while everyone else is subject of massive law enforcement attention, from stop-and-frisk programs to invasive surveillance that resembles a police state.
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Unintended consequences -- Frisk and stop -- The man who couldn't stand up -- The greatest bank robbery you never heard of -- Border trouble, part 1 -- Border trouble, part 2 -- Little frauds -- Big frauds -- Collateral consequences.

Examines America's widening wealth gap, which is reshaping our economic life, and changing our core sense of right and wrong. A lawless aristocracy of hyperwealth comprising 1% of the population operate with near impunity, while everyone else is subject of massive law enforcement attention, from stop-and-frisk programs to invasive surveillance that resembles a police state.

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