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Ratf**ked

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

David Daley author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Published:5th Aug '16

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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.

ISBN: 9781631491627

Dimensions: 244mm x 165mm x 25mm

Weight: 459g

288 pages