Ratf**ked

The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy

David Daley

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English

Liveright
15 July 2016

History; Political structure & processes; Political parties

"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
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*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
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*ked pulls back the curtain on one of the greatest heists in American political history."

By: David Daley
Imprint: Liveright
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 459g
ISBN: 9781631491627
ISBN 10: 1631491628
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 15 July 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

The way dark money was translated into congressional majorities is one of the great, sinister stories of our time. But in David Daley the shadow figures have finally met their match.--Thomas Frank, author of What s the Matter with Kansas