The definitive history of the Covert struggle between Russia and America to influence elections, why the threat to American democracy is greater than ever, and what we can do about it.
He received his doctorate in international relations from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and his undergraduate and master\'s degrees in history from Yale University..
His reporting and analysis have appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs.
About author(s): DAVID Shimer is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and an Associate Fellow at Yale University.
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.
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.
Russia\'s central aim is to undermine and disrupt our democracy, to the detriment of all Americans.
Shimer also makes disturbingly clear that this type of intrusion can be used to harm Democrats and Republicans alike.
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.
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.
Shimer shows that Putin\'s operation was, in fact, a continuation of an ongoing struggle, using familiar weapons radically enhanced by new technology.
What Americans should make of Russia\'s attack in 2016 is still hotly debated, even after the Mueller report and Years of media coverage.
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.
In Rigged , David Shimer tells the sweeping story of Covert Electoral Interference past and present.
Extraordinary and gripping ( The New York Times Book Review ) Russia\'s Interference in 2016 marked only the latest chapter of a hidden and revelatory history.
This is the first book to put the story of Russian Interference into a broader context ...
The definitive history of the Covert struggle between Russia and America to influence elections, why the threat to American democracy is greater than ever, and what we can do about it
