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.
About the AuthorDavid 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.
Book InformationISBN 9781631491627
Author David DaleyFormat Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint Liveright Publishing CorporationPublisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 459g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 165mm * 25mm