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Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference

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/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

70/100

Critics

36/100

Scholars

88/100

Author:

David Shimer

Publisher:

Knopf

Date:

June 30, 2020

A new account of covert operations to influence elections from the Cold War to 2016, why the threat to American democracy is greater than ever in 2020, and what we can do about it.

What The Reviewers Say

Timothy Naftali,
The New York Times Book Review
Shimer provides a subtle and evenhanded portrait of a White House in an unprecedented crisis.
Philip Ewing,
NPR
... [an] important new history.
Carlos Lozada,
The Washington Post
... absorbing.
Luke Harding,
The Guardian (UK)
... offers a convincing analysis of what changed in the three decades since the cold war and with the arrival in the Kremlin of Vladimir Putin.