The Divide: American injustice in the age of the wealth gap - Softcover

America's muckraking moral conscience takes on his most important story yet. America's wealthy 1 per cent operate with near impunity, protected by their class and their system; however large and outrageous their crimes, they are rarely charged and rarely jailed. Meanwhile, everyone else finds their very 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 look into 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.