"Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: The Theft of 2012"
The BBC reporter who busted Katherine Harris' fake felon purge tells weird, hilarious and sick stories of the billionaires who are bankrolling the GOP; with hot new info on the Koch Brothers as well as the filthy rich you've never heard of from his new book & film. "Bugs Bunny meets Hunter Thompson"
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Palast's prose has a zippy, breathless quality that might put you in mind of Michael Moore -- "How does a ballot get spoiled? Not by leaving it out of the fridge" -- but he's also an expert in statistics who reports regularly for the BBC, Rolling Stone and other outlets.
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New York Times
"The most terrifying book a Democrat could read.
Billionaires and Ballot Bandits delineates the potential theft of democracy."
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Huffington Post "A practical primer on how to exercise your right to vote on Election Day in the face of a calculated Republican multi-pronged plan to prevent you from casting a ballot by any means necessary."
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News Blaze "Palast ...
chronicles how many of America's super rich -- the Koch brothers, hedge fund titan Paul Singer, Texan corporate raider Harold Simmons, among many others -- have been patiently and prodigiously subsidizing campaigns not to "get out the vote," but to keep it down."
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Too Much "If you really want to understand the forthcoming US presidential election, read this book."
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Green Left