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Ratf**ked : How the Democrats Won the Presidency but Lost America by David Daley (2017, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherLiveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN-101631493213
ISBN-139781631493218
eBay Product ID (ePID)234325345
Product Key Features
Book TitleRatf**Ked : How the Democrats Won the Presidency but Lost America
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2017
TopicElection Law, Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, American Government / General, Political Process / Political Parties
IllustratorYes
GenreLaw, Political Science
AuthorDavid Daley
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight9.8 Oz
Item Length0.8 in
Item Width0.6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2017-473131
ReviewsDaley'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 difficult to wrestle control of the House away from the GOP. Democrats should read this book. -- Julian E. Zelizer (Washington Post) Extraordinarily timely and undeniably important. -- Alex Wagner (New York Times Book Review) Compelling. -- Elizabeth Kolbert (The New Yorker) 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
SynopsisWith 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., Lauded as a "compelling" ( The New Yorker ) and "eye-opening tour of a process that many Americans never see" ( Washington Post ), David Daley's Ratf**ked documents the effort of Republican legislators and political operatives to hack American democracy through an audacious redistricting plan called REDMAP. Since the revolutionary election of Barack Obama, a group of GOP strategists has devised a way to flood state races with a gold rush of dark money, made possible by Citizens United, in order to completely reshape Congress--and our democracy itself. "Sobering and convincing" ( New York Review of Books ), Ratf**ked shows how this program has radically altered America's electoral map and created a firewall in the House, insulating the Republican party and its wealthy donors from popular democracy. While exhausted voters recover from a grueling presidential election, a new Afterword from the author explores the latest intense efforts by both parties, who are already preparing for the next redistricting cycle in 2020., David Daley's "extraordinarily timely" (New York Times Book Review) account uncovers the fundamental rigging of our House of Representatives and state legislatures nationwide.
LC Classification NumberJK1341.D35 2017
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- 30 Jul, 2019
Very informative.
This is a book every American voter should read. Very well written and documented.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
