About the Griftopia - A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab In American History (Paperback)

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Derangement comes the perfect book for this moment in American history: a brilliant blood-boiling, darkly humorous, and bracingly honest investigation into the hidden mechanisms of power in bailout-era America.
How did we get here? How did a country brimming with wealth and confidence as it greeted the twenty-first century turn into a shrieking basket case in a mere decade? Matt Taibbi--possibly the most passionately loved political journalist of his generation--takes readers into the halls of American financial, political, and media power and details the dramatic series of events that led to what he calls a "silent coup d'état," the complete transfer of the power and resources of our ostensible democracy to an increasingly self-interested and parasitic elite--and what it means for our future.