The Wealth Divide

The wealth divide in America did not settle the way sediment settles. It was built, revised, briefly reversed, and then rebuilt with better engineering, and nearly every stage of it can be traced to identifiable people making documented decisions in specific years. Brian follows the paper trail, because in sixteen years of police work he learned that the interview is where people tell you what they want you to believe and the paperwork is where you find out what actually happened.

This one is a paper case.It opens in New Orleans in 1839, in the rotunda of the...