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The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture
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14
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Readers
14/100Critics
13/100Scholars
Author:
Matthew Stewart
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Date:
October 12, 2021
An analysis of how the wealthiest 9.9 percent of Americansâthose just below the tip of the wealth pyramidâhave exacerbated the growing inequality in our country and distorted our social values.
What The Reviewers Say
Brilliant.
A far-reaching indictment of a conceptually indefensible but institutionally rigid status quo, and it’s to Stewart’s credit that he resists portraying the 9.9 percent as some sort of fallen patrician elite.
Unfortunately, Stewart’s portrait of the 9.9 percent draws on few firsthand interviews with members of this class. He relies instead on examples culled from sources like Slate and on made-up characters such as 'Ultramom,' a cartoonish figure.
The latest in [a] series of backhanded apologias.
