The Great Divergence America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It

by Noah, Timothy

• ISBN13: 9781608196357
• ISBN10: 1608196356
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-01-29
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Press

Summary

Noah delivers this urgently needed inquiry into the income gap, drawing on the best work of contemporary researchers to peer beyond conventional wisdom about how the Great Divergence has come about, but why it threatens American democracy, and how it can be reversed.

Author Biography

Timothy Noah was recently named "TRB," the lead columnist at The New Republic. He wrote for Slate for a dozen years, and previously served at the Wall Street Journal, the New Republic, and the Washington Monthly. He edited two collections of the writings of his late wife, Marjorie Williams, including the New York Times bestseller The Woman at the Washington Zoo. Noah received the 2011 Hillman Prize, the highest award for public service magazine journalism, for the series in Slate that forms the basis of The Great Divergence.