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Taibbi was born in 1970 in new brunswick, new jersey to mike taibbi, an nbc television reporter, and his wife. In the divide, matt taibbi takes readers on a galvanizing journey through both sides of our new system of justicethe fun. A new book by matt taibbi explores what the life and death of eric garner can teach us about policing, our justice system, and americas ongoing struggle to deal with race. Rolling stone journalist matt taibbi discusses his new book about presidentelect donald trump, insane clown president.
Matt taibbi is a contributing editor for rolling stone and winner of the 2008 national magazine award for columns and commentary. I talked about the book with longtime friends amy goodman and juan gonzalez of democracy now. American injustice in the age of the wealth gap, will be available online and on store shelves this coming tuesday, april 8th. Excerpt from matt taibbis book on the eric garner killing rolling stone taibbis book, i cant breathe, explores the roots and repercussions of the killing of eric garner by the new york city. On the stay classy watch, rolling stone political writer matt taibbi did an online chat at on monday to plug his new book the great derangement, which. A killing on bay street, about the infamous killing of eric garner by the new york city police. When american journalism finishes its own book of revelations, matt taibbis name will be on the title page. Matt taibbi, author of the new york times bestsellers insane clown. Matt taibbi has 18 books on goodreads with 66353 ratings. He has reported on politics, media, finance, and sports, and has authored several books including his latest hate, inc why todays media makes us. Part tirade, part confessional, it reveals that what most people think of as the news is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business.