Unrigged - How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy

Following Ratf**ked, his "extraordinary timely and undeniably important" (New York Times Book Review) exposé of how a small cadre of Republican operatives rigged American elections, David Daley emerged as one of the nation's leading authorities on gerrymandering. In Unrigged, he charts a vibrant political movement that is rising in the wake of his and other reporters' revelations. With his trademark journalistic rigor and narrative flair, Daley reports on Pennsylvania's dramatic defeat of a gerrymander using the research of ingenious mathematicians and the Michigan millennial who launched a statewide redistricting revolution with a Facebook post. He tells the stories of activist groups that paved the way for 2018's historic blue wave and won crucial battles for voting rights in Florida, Maine, Utah, and nationwide. In an age of polarization, Unrigged offers a vivid portrait of a nation transformed by a new civic awakening, and provides a blueprint for what must be done to keep American democracy afloat.

About the author

David 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.

Summary

A revelatory account by the best- selling author of Ratf**ked that will give you hope that America’s fragile democracy can still be saved.

Product details

• Authors: David Daley, Daley David
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 21.04.2020, delayed
• EAN: 9781631495755
• ISBN: 978-1-63149-575-5
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 244 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 530 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Political Parties, Politische Parteien, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics / Current Events, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, 21st Century, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Political campaigning and advertising, Elections & referenda, Constitution: government & the state, Political parties and party platforms, Elections and referenda / suffrage