Sep 14, 2020
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David Shimer is an American historian, and foreign policy analyst. He graduated from Yale University and was a Marshall Scholar. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Foreign Affairs.
His new book is Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference
The definitive history of the covert struggle between Russia and America to influence elections, why the threat to American democracy is greater than ever in 2020, and what we can do about it.
Russia's interference in 2016 marked only the latest chapter of
a hidden and revelatory history. In Rigged, David Shimer
tells the sweeping story of covert electoral interference past and
present. He exposes decades of secret operations--by the KGB, the
CIA, and Vladimir Putin's Russia--to shape electoral outcomes,
melding deep historical research with groundbreaking interviews
with more than 130 key players, from leading officials in both the
Trump and Obama administrations, to CIA and NSA directors, to a
former KGB general.
What Americans should make of Russia's attack in 2016 is still
hotly debated, even after the Mueller report and years of media
coverage. Shimer shows that Putin's operation was, in fact, a
continuation of an ongoing struggle, using familiar weapons
radically enhanced by new technology. Throughout history and in
2016, both Russian and American operations achieved their greatest
success by influencing the way voters think, rather than tampering
with actual vote tallies.
Casting aside partisanship and
sensationalism, Rigged reveals new details about
what Russia achieved in 2016, how the Obama administration
responded, and why Putin has also been interfering covertly in
elections across the globe in recent years, while American
presidents have largely refrained from doing so. Shimer also makes
disturbingly clear that this type of intrusion can be used to harm
Democrats and Republicans alike. Russia's central aim is to
undermine and disrupt our democracy, to the detriment of all
Americans.
Understanding 2016 as one battle in a much longer war is essential
to understanding the critical threat currently posed to America's
electoral sovereignty and how to defend against it. Illuminating
how the lessons of the past can be used to protect our democracy in
the future, Rigged is an essential book for
readers of every political persuasion.
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