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Book

Ratf**ked : the true story behind the secret plan to steal America's democracy

Call Number

  • 328.73 D141 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]

Physical Description

xxviii, 257 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

Summary

"The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting,"--NoveList.

Contents

  • The mastermind: "It will take years to recover"
  • Pennsylvania: "So this wasn't a personal attack"
  • North Carolina: truly space-age software
  • Maptitude: "Donald Duck kicking Goofy"
  • Michigan: a garbage dump is the cherry on top
  • Ohio: "A small carve out down 77 in Canton"
  • Democrats: "They just whistled past the graveyard"
  • Florida: "Tampa is far from perfect"
  • Wisconsin: "They put my district in a woodchipper"
  • Iowa: the redistricting unicorn
  • Arizona: "You can't get any more partisan than this"
  • A theorem to detect ratfucking.

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