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“Chilling and convincing, Antidemocratic is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand American politics in 2024.” —Heather Cox Richardson, author of Democracy Awakening

A riveting yet disturbing history of the fifty-year Republican plot to hijack voting rights in America, its profound implications for the 2024 presidential election, and the crucial role that Chief Justice John Roberts has played in determining how we vote.

In 1981, a young lawyer, fresh out of Harvard law school, joined the Reagan administration’s Department of Justice, taking up a cause that had been fomenting in Republican circles for over a decade by that point. From his perch inside the Reagan DOJ, this lawyer would attempt to bring down one of the defining pieces of 20th century legislation—the Voting Rights Act. His name was John Roberts.

Over thirty years later in 2013, these efforts by John Roberts and the conservative legal establishment culminated when Roberts, now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, wrote Shelby County vs. Holder, one of the most consequential decisions of modern jurisprudence. A dramatic move that gutted the Voting Rights Act, Roberts’s decision—dangerously premised on the flawed notion that racism was a thing of the past—emboldened right-wing, antidemocratic voting laws around the country immediately. No modern court decision has done more to hand elections to Republicans than Shelby.

Now lauded investigative reporter David Daley reveals the urgent story of this fifty-year Republican plot to end the Voting Rights Act and encourage minority rule in their party’s favor. From the bowels of Reagan’s DOJ to the walls of the conservative Federalist Society to the moneyed Republican resources bankrolling restrictive voting laws today, Daley reveals a hidden history as sweeping as it is troubling. Through careful research and exhaustive reporting, he connects Shelby to a well-funded, highly-coordinated right-wing effort to erode the power of minority voters and Democrats at the ballot box—an effort that has grown stronger with each election cycle. In the process Roberts and his conservative allies have enabled fringe conservative theories about our elections with the potential to shape the 2024 election and topple the foundations of our democracy.

Timely and alarming, Daley offers a powerful message that, while Shelby was the misguided end of the Voting Rights Act, it was also the beginning of something far darker.


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“In this disturbing exposé, journalist Daley (Ratf**ked) recounts conservatives’ decades-long plan to undermine the Voting Rights Act and disenfranchise people of color…It’s a must-read.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“David Daley’s superpower has always been the ability to delineate with crystal clarity the patterns that have led us to the current political moment…Daley’s deeply engaging prose traces the legal strategy that took away Americans’ right to vote, and with it, the principles guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence: the right to determine the government under which we live. Chilling and convincing, Antidemocratic is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand American politics in 2024.” — Heather Cox Richardson, New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening

“David Daley has written a masterful true-crime story in which the victim is democracy. He reveals the schemers behind today’s assault on fair elections, some of whom sit on the Supreme Court. Antidemocratic is both riveting and essential reading for anyone who cares about the fate of American democracy.”  — Jane Mayer, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Money

“David Daley has written a definitive history of how the right-wing bullies in suits at the Federalist Society captured the Supreme Court and staged a relentless assault on voting rights in America. Just as the modern civil rights movement transformed American democracy, the Federalist Society’s anti-civil rights movement is the constant humming machinery of reaction working to implant plutocracy, kleptocracy, theocracy, and autocracy in our country. If you love democracy and want to fight for it, read this book and know thine enemy.” — Congressman Jamie Raskin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Unthinkable

“David Daley has been at the absolute forefront of educating us about the theft of our elections by radical Republicans determined to subvert everyone else’s power to choose their own leaders. An absolute warrior for democracy.” — Rick Perlstein, New York Times bestselling author of Nixonland and Reaganland

“Interesting and enlightening…Few pictures reveal more starkly how high public officials are in the tank, how blasé they are about their exposure, and how little can be done about it. ” — The Baffler

“Extraordinarily timely and undeniably important.”  — New York Times Book Review on Ratf**cked

“[An] eye-opening tour of a process that many Americans never see.”  — Washington Post on Ratf**cked

“Compelling.”  — The New Yorker on Ratf**cked

“Terrific…a really good inside story of a political heist.”  — Boston Globe on Ratf**cked

“Sobering and convincing.”  — New York Review of Books on Ratf**cked

“A cutting analysis of the long-term project to disenfranchise left-leaning voters…The chief weapon, Daley argues convincingly, has been the Supreme Court, seeded with far-right-leaning judges who endorse this antidemocracy movement. At the heart is John Roberts.” — Kirkus Reviews

“Daley comprehensively details an intricate and long-running plot to upend the bedrock of the U.S. democratic process… a well-researched and thought-provoking study of the corrupting influences of dark money.” — Booklist

About the Author

David Daley is the author of the national bestseller Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count, which helped spark the drive to reform gerrymandering. He regularly discusses democracy and voting rights on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and other outlets. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and the Guardian, among other publications. He is the former editor in chief of Salon. He lives in Massachusetts.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mariner Books (August 6, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0063321092
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0063321090
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.22 x 9 inches
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David Daley is the author of the national best-seller "Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count" (Norton/Liveright) and one of the nation's leading experts on partisan gerrymandering.

He is a senior fellow at FairVote, a nonpartisan champion of election reforms.

His journalism on redistricting and gerrymandering has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, New York magazine and many other leading publications.

He is the former editor in chief of Salon.com.

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Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2024
Book club members enjoyed our discussion of this well written book
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2024
I can’t think of another book I’ve read this year that is as important and timely as David Daley’s Antidemocratic. Every American voter needs to read Daley’s extraordinary book.
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2024
This book outlines how the republican party has cheated it's way to where we are in this country today. Chief Justice John Roberts has been in on it all along.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2024
David Daley is one of the best writers on democracy in the US. This book is a must-read for those who want to understand the current Supreme Court and how it has undermined our democracy. It reads like a thriller novel and you won't be able to put it down!
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Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2024
I listened to this book on Audible. I figured out quickly. I’m going to have to buy the hardback version. The narrator is simply too emotional. I understand a lot of this background already having read a number of books, including Democracy In Chains by Nancy MacLean, Heather Cox Richardson‘s recent books, and others. I really don’t want to say anything bad, but the truth is, the narrator is too emotional, and puts too much drama into his reading. I’m a very liberal democrat, and I’m an educated individual. I follow politics very closely, And I’m very worried about this election, as well as the overall situation with gerrymandering and with the Federalist’s flow of super conservative lawyers and judges into the pipeline For federal judgeships. But I read to educate myself. I don’t need to feel emotionally triggered by someone else’s narration. It interferes with really hearing the author’s words.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2024
This book is brilliantly researched and completely convincing. It exposes John Roberts as a "faux umpire" who does not CALL "balls and strikes" but in fact tilts the playing field in one direction, bit by bit by bit. The ruling that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act (Shelby County) was over 40 years in the making, beginning with the infamous "Powell Memo" of 1971 which led in part to the founding of the FEDERALIST SOCIDETY and continuing with Roberts; role as a young Justice Department Lawyer in the Reagan Administration beginning to chip away at the Voting Rights Act even as it was re-authorized in 1982. The six unelected right-wing ideologues on the Supreme Court are a mortal threat to American Democracy. The Democrats have to re-gain Congress and keep the White House and reform the Supreme Court as a FIRST ORDER of business.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2024
If you suspected politics doesn’t operate fairly, or if you always thought it does, or if you wonder why presidents with millions of votes more than their competitor lose, this is yiur book and David Daley is your person.
He explains how the GOP has spent over forty years taking over the Supreme Court, how they make gerrymandering work so your vote doesn’t count, and the true reason the GOP suppresses minority votes. The book is extremely well-written in easy to understand language. His research and background are impeccable, and the book has enough information to share with your friends.
I highly recommend this.
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T. McAleenan
5.0 out of 5 stars Terrifying
Reviewed in France on October 30, 2024
Absolutely terrifying. From Bush v Gore to the current Roberts Court the Republican ploy to use the judicial system to secure what they couldn’t through free and fair elections is laid out.
Is it partisan written; yes, is it any more partisan that what actually happened, not even slightly