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Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America´s Democracy
David Daley
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Description for Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America´s Democracy
Hardback. The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JPH; JPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned, a small cadre of Republican operatives began plotting their comeback with a simple yet ingenious plan. These men had devised a way to take a tradition of dirty tricks-known to political insiders as ratf**king -to an unprecedented level. Flooding state races with a gold rush of dark money, the Republicans reshaped state legislatures where the power to redistrict is held. Reconstructing this previously untold story, David Daley examines the far-reaching effects of this programme, which has ... Read more
With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned, a small cadre of Republican operatives began plotting their comeback with a simple yet ingenious plan. These men had devised a way to take a tradition of dirty tricks-known to political insiders as ratf**king -to an unprecedented level. Flooding state races with a gold rush of dark money, the Republicans reshaped state legislatures where the power to redistrict is held. Reconstructing this previously untold story, David Daley examines the far-reaching effects of this programme, which has ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781631491627
SKU
V9781631491627
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About David Daley
David Daley is the editor in chief of Salon and the Digital Media Fellow for the Wilson Center for Humanities and the Arts and the Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Reviews for Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America´s Democracy
Extraordinarily timely and undeniably important.
Alex Wagner Compelling.
Elizabeth Kolbert Daley's book provides a blow-by-blow account of how this happened. He draws on investigative reports, interviews and court documents to give readers an eye-opening tour of a process that many Americans never see....What Daley makes clear is that ruthless partisan gerrymandering is not good for democracy and makes it that much more ... Read more
Alex Wagner Compelling.
Elizabeth Kolbert Daley's book provides a blow-by-blow account of how this happened. He draws on investigative reports, interviews and court documents to give readers an eye-opening tour of a process that many Americans never see....What Daley makes clear is that ruthless partisan gerrymandering is not good for democracy and makes it that much more ... Read more