Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America''s Democracy

With Barack Obamas 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 tricksknown to political insiders as ratf**kingto 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 Americas 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. See more