Down for the Count: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America

by Andrew Gumbel

Book Overview

The updated edition of Steal This Vote--a rollicking history of US voter suppression and fraud from Jacksonian democracy to Citizens United and beyond.

In Down for the Count, 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620971682
• ISBN13: 9781620971680
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"