Down for the Count.

By Andrew Gumbel

ISBN: 9781620971697

Printed: 2016

Publisher: The New Press. New York

Dimensions 14 × 21 × 2 cm
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Language: English

Size (cminches): 14 x 21 x 2

Condition: As new  (See explanation of ratings)

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Softback. Black cover with white title on the spine and front board.

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This book, published in 2016 by The New Press, explores the tawdry history of elections in the United States – a chronicle of votes bought, stolen, suppressed, lost, miscounted, thrown into rivers, and litigated up to the U.S. Supreme Court – and uses it to explain why we are now experiencing the biggest backslide in voting rights in more than a century. Although written
before Donald Trump became president, it offers keen insight into the flaws in the system that Trump and his allies were able to exploit or profit from and is particularly timely now in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. This thoroughly revised edition, first published to acclaim and some controversy in 2005 as Steal This Vote, reveals why America is unique among
established western democracies in its inability to run clean, transparent elections. And it demonstrates how the partisan battles now raging over voter ID, out-of-control campaign spending, voter disinformation, foreign interference, and minority voting rights fit into a long, largely unspoken tradition of hostility to the very notion of representative democracy. Andrew interviewed Democrats, Republicans and a range of voting rights activists to offer a multi-faceted, deeply researched, and engaging critical assessment of a system whose ostensible commitment to democratic integrity too often falls apart on contact with race, money, and power. It paints a vivid and often disturbing picture of our age of high-stakes electoral combat,
billionaire-backed candidacies, and bottom-of-the-barrel campaigning. It offers both a road map of how to improve the system as well as the reasons why it will be very hard to get there.

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