Down For The Count: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America - Softcover

Gumbel, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620971682 ISBN 13: 9781620971680

Verlag: The New Press, 2016

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Praise for Andrew Gumbel's "Steal This Vote"
"In a riveting and frightening account, Gumbeltraces election fraud in America from the eighteenth century to the present[the issues he] winningly addresses are crucial to the future of democracy."
"Publishers Weekly"
"A very judicious work The best overview I've seen of the 2000 Florida vote.
Paul Krugman, "The New York Times"
"Excellent In Gumbel s account, both parties are to blame for creating and sustaining a political environment rife with perverse incentives for fraud, manipulation, and the maintenance of a dysfunctional status quo."
"Mother Jones""

Praise for "Down for the Count"
"The right to vote is not only the cornerstone of American democracy; it is also the right upon which all our other rights depend. "Down for the Count" offers an eye-opening account of this country s long history of meddling and voter suppression, and it establishes vital, disturbing connections between the rise of Jim Crow and the most recent attacks on voting integrity."
-Ben Jealous, former president and CEO of the NAACP
"In this comprehensive assessment of voting in the United States, Gumbel explores in depth both the historical aspects and the current battles over elections and voting procedures and their implications locally, nationally, and internationally. Gumbel illuminates, with intelligence and great perception, the structural flaws in the American election system. While the systemic dysfunction is dismal and pervasive, Gumbel also offers a list of solutions. Provocative and challenging, this book does not tell a pretty story, but it is a story essential to all of us who treasure our democracy."
-Orville Vernon Burton, author of "The Age of Lincoln"
"It s a freecountry, asthe saying goes, but a modern, well-functioning, maturedemocracy? Noteven close.In thisfast-paced ridethrough the seamypast and alarming presentofAmerica s ramshackle, corruptibleelectoral machinery, Gumbeltellsa tale ofAmerican exceptionalismwith avengeance."
-Hendrik Hertzberg, staff writer at the "New Yorker""

Praise for Down for the Count
"The right to vote is not only the cornerstone of American democracy; it is also the right upon which all our other rights depend. Down for the Count offers an eye-opening account of this country s long history of meddling and voter suppression, and it establishes vital, disturbing connections between the rise of Jim Crow and the most recent attacks on voting integrity."
-Ben Jealous, former president and CEO of the NAACP
"In this comprehensive assessment of voting in the United States, Gumbel explores in depth both the historical aspects and the current battles over elections and voting procedures and their implications locally, nationally, and internationally. Gumbel illuminates, with intelligence and great perception, the structural flaws in the American election system. While the systemic dysfunction is dismal and pervasive, Gumbel also offers a list of solutions. Provocative and challenging, this book does not tell a pretty story, but it is a story essential to all of us who treasure our democracy."
-Orville Vernon Burton, author of The Age of Lincoln
"It s a freecountry, asthe saying goes, but a modern, well-functioning, maturedemocracy? Noteven close.In thisfast-paced ridethrough the seamypast and alarming presentofAmerica s ramshackle, corruptibleelectoral machinery, Gumbeltellsa tale ofAmerican exceptionalismwith avengeance."
-Hendrik Hertzberg, staff writer at the New Yorker"

Praise for Down for the Count
"The right to vote is not only the cornerstone of American democracy; it is also the right upon which all our other rights depend. Down for the Count offers an eye-opening account of this country's long history of meddling and voter suppression, and it establishes vital, disturbing connections between the rise of Jim Crow and the most recent attacks on voting integrity."
-Ben Jealous, former president and CEO of the NAACP

"In this comprehensive assessment of voting in the United States, Gumbel explores in depth both the historical aspects and the current battles over elections and voting procedures--and their implications locally, nationally, and internationally. Gumbel illuminates, with intelligence and great perception, the structural flaws in the American election system. While the systemic dysfunction is dismal and pervasive, Gumbel also offers a list of solutions. Provocative and challenging, this book does not tell a pretty story, but it is a story essential to all of us who treasure our democracy."
-Orville Vernon Burton, author of The Age of Lincoln

"It's a free country, as the saying goes, but a modern, well-functioning, mature democracy? Not even close. In this fast-paced ride through the seamy past and alarming present of America's ramshackle, corruptible electoral machinery, Gumbel tells a tale of American exceptionalism with a vengeance."
-Hendrik Hertzberg, staff writer at the New Yorker

Reseña del editor

Down for the Count 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. 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, in crisp, clear, accessible language, how the partisan battles now raging over voter ID, out-of-control campaign spending, and minority voting rights fit into a long, largely unspoken tradition of hostility to the very notion of representative democracy.

Andrew Gumbel has interviewed Democrats, Republicans, and a range of voting rights activists to offer a multifaceted, deeply researched, and engaging critical assessment of a system whose ostensible commitment to democratic integrity so often falls apart on contact with race, money, and power. In an age of high-stakes electoral combat, billionaire-backed candidacies, and bottom-of-the-barrel campaigning, there can be no better time to reissue this troubling and revealing book.

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• Verlag: The New Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1620971682
• ISBN 13: 9781620971680
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288