The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the

The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

In the wake of Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election, a deeply reported look inside the conservative movement working to undermine American democracy
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Donald Trump is the second Republican this century to triumph in the Electoral College without winning the popular vote. As Zachary Roth reveals in The Great Suppression, this is no coincidence. Over the last decade, Republicans have been rigging the game in their favor. Twenty-two states have passed restrictions on voting. Ruthless gerrymandering has given the GOP a long-term grip on Congress. Meanwhile, theÂ Supreme Court has eviscerated campaign finance laws, boosting candidates backed by big money.Â

It would be worrying enough if these were just schemes for partisan advantage. But the reality is even more disturbing: a growing number of Republicans distrust the very idea of democracyâ€”and theyâ€™re doing everything they canÂ to limit it.Â

InÂ The Great Suppression, Roth unearths the deep historical roots of this anti-egalitarian worldview, and introduces us toÂ its modern-day proponents: The GOP officials pushing to make it harder to cast a ballot; the lawyers looking to scrap all limits on money in politics; the libertarian scholars reclaiming judicial activism to roll back the New Deal; and the corporate lobbyists working toÂ ban local action on everything from the minimum wage to the environment.Â And he travels from Rust Belt cities to southern towns to show us how these efforts are hurting the most vulnerable Americans and preventing progress on pressing issues.

A sharp, searing polemic in the tradition of Rachel Maddow and Matt Taibbi,Â The Great SuppressionÂ is an urgent wake-up call about a threat to our most cherished values, and a rousing argument for why we need democracy now more than ever.
Country USA
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-08-02
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-08-02
Format	Kindle eBook

The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy

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