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DESCRIPTION:“This is the book the 99% has been waiting for. Crisply lucid and 
 brilliantly argued, THE GREAT DIVERGENCE manages to entertain at the same 
 time that it explains. Best of all, Noah offers some strikingly sensible 
 steps to undo the economic polarization that is tearing America 
 apart.”\n-- Barbara Ehrenreich \n\nHow did “the 1 percent” pull away 
 from “the 99 percent”? A probing and provocative exploration of income 
 inequality in America, and the dangers it poses to our democracy.\n \nFor 
 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, Kenya, 
 or Yemen. \n \nWhat economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms “the Great 
 Divergence” has until now been treated as little more than a talking 
 point, a club to be wielded in ideological battles. But it may be the most 
 important change in this country during our lifetimes—a sharp, 
 fundamental shift in the character of American society, and not at all for 
 the better. \n \nThe income gap has been blamed on everything from 
 computers to immigration, but its causes and consequences call for a 
 patient, non-partisan exploration. In The Great Divergence, based on his 
 award-winning series of articles in Slate, Timothy Noah delivers this 
 urgently needed inquiry, ignoring political rhetoric and drawing on the 
 best work of contemporary researchers to peer beyond conventional wisdom. 
 Noah explains not only how the Great Divergence has come about, but why it 
 threatens American democracy—and most important, how we can begin to 
 reverse it.   \n \nComing fast on the heels of the Occupy Wall Street 
 movement and at the start of a presidential election year when inequality 
 will be front and center, The Great Divergence is a vitally necessary 
 primer, history, and manifesto that will inform and drive a long-overdue 
 political debate. \n\n“An important, exemplary, and finally passionate 
 work of long-form journalism” -- Hendrik Hertzberg\n\n"A lucid, original, 
 fascinating, and very useful guide to the biggest threat to America's 
 future as a democracy. Noah has pulled together the whole array of 
 explanations for the increasing Third World-ization of America—and he has 
 sorted them out for us, with a guide to which are most important and what 
 we can do about them. This is the book that should have been given out at 
 the Occupy movements and—well, to everyone." -- James Fallows\n\nTimothy 
 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 (of which Nicholas Kristof wrote in the 
 NYT, "An excellent series") in Slate that forms the basis of The Great 
 Divergence.\n\nTim talks with Paul Pierson, the John Gross Professor of 
 Political Science at UC Berkeley, and author of several books, including 
 the recent Winner Take All Politics, this evening.\n\nTuesday, May 
 8\nHillside Club (2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley)\n\nTickets $12 ($6 students, 
 OLLI, and Hillside members) in advance only at Brown Paper Tickets online 
 or 800-838-3006; $15 at the door (all)\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Tim Noah talks with Paul Pierson about The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality
LOCATION:Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley CA 94709
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/20/18709753.php
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