Ratf**ked
The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy
Published on 5. August 2016
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-63149-162-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 radically altered America's electoral map and created a firewall in the House. Ratf**ked pulls back the curtain on one of the greatest heists in American political history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
WW Norton & Co
Illustrations
5 maps
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
468 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63149-162-7 (9781631491627)
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06/2016
Liveright
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David Daley is the author of Ratf**ked. His journalism has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Slate, the Washington Post, and New York magazine. He is a senior fellow at FairVote, the former editor of Salon, and lives in Massachusetts.