The Great Divergence
by Timothy Noah
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80%
Critic Reviews: 10
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Reader Ratings: 33
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Synopsis
A probing and provocative exploration of income inequality in America, and the dangers it poses to our democracy, based on Timothy Noah’s award-winning articles from Slate.For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly drastically unequal: the top 1% of Americans collect almost 20% of the nation’s income—more than double their share in 1973. We have less equality of income than Venezuela,... more
About Timothy Noah
Published: April 24, 2012 by Macmillan Publishing
Genre: Political & Social Sciences. Non-fiction. 272 pages
- All Critics: 10
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- Negative: 1
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The New York Times | 25 May 2012
In “The Great Divergence,” the journalist Timothy Noah gives us as fair and comprehensive a summary as we are likely to get of what economists have learned about our growing inequality.
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Christian Science Monitor | 30 Apr 2012
Noah offers a series of convincing, balanced and thoughtful – if politically unrealistic – solutions to the disappearance of the middle class.
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Cleveland.com | 20 May 2012
...the sentences are graceful, and the points are clear.
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History News Network | 17 Apr 2012
And so in The Great Divergence he marshals a great deal of evidence and sculpts it into an impressively svelte book to demonstrate that income inequality in the United States is real, growing, and dangerous.
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Marginal Revolution | 19 Mar 2012
This book is well-written and it is a useful survey of left-democrat points of view on the problem.
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Publishers Weekly | 27 Feb 2012
Noah makes a convincing and passionate case for why rising inequality harms a working democracy, and suggests sensible, though not always politically viable, solutions.
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Kirkus Reviews | 15 Feb 2012
Essential background reading for the coming elections.
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A week is a long time | 14 Jun 2012
It was fascinating to read about social mobility from an American perspective and I will read Timothy Noah's journalism again in the future.
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Cogitamus | 28 May 2012
It's a timely and thoughtful treatment of a subject of increasing importance.
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The New York Times | 25 May 2012
How much inequality can the Republic stand before the social and political fabric frays? Noah does not answer the question, in part because he doesn’t know, but mostly because he feels he doesn’t need to.
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