{"product_id":"down-for-the-count-andrew-gumbel-9781620971680","title":"Down for the Count: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe updated edition of \u003ci\u003eSteal This Vote\u003c\/i\u003e--a rollicking history of US voter suppression and fraud from Jacksonian democracy to \u003ci\u003eCitizens United\u003c\/i\u003e and beyond.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eDown for the Count\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning journalist Andrew Gumbel explores the tawdry history of elections in the United States. From Jim Crow to Tammany Hall to the Bush v. Gore Florida recount, it is a chronicle of votes bought, stolen, suppressed, lost, miscounted, thrown into rivers, and litigated up to the Supreme Court. Gumbel then uses this history to explain why America is now experiencing the biggest backslide in voting rights in more than a century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e First published in 2005 as \u003ci\u003eSteal This Vote\u003c\/i\u003e, this thoroughly revised and updated edition reveals why America faces so much trouble running clean, transparent elections. And it demonstrates how the partisan battles now raging over voter IDs, campaign spending, and minority voting rights fit into a long, largely unspoken tradition of hostility to the very notion of representative democracy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Interviewing Democrats, Republicans, and a range of voting rights activists, Gumbel offers an engaging and accessible analysis of how our democratic integrity is so often corrupted by racism, money, and power. In an age of high-stakes electoral combat, billionaire-backed candidacies, and bottom-of-the-barrel campaigning, this book is more important than ever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In a riveting and frightening account, Gumbel . . . traces election fraud in America from the 18th century to the present . . .  the issues he] so winningly addresses are crucial to the future of democracy.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eSteal This Vote\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Gumbel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1620971682\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781620971680\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/29\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2016 pg. 107","brand":"Andrew Gumbel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44042407084287,"sku":"9781620971680","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_10b3cc36-e2ca-470f-b4f7-ef5c4aef7403.jpg?v=1684961334","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/down-for-the-count-andrew-gumbel-9781620971680","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}