One person, one vote a surprising history of gerrymandering in America, where it is today and how we got here
"Nicholas Seabrook, authority on constitutional and election law, and expert on gerrymandering, begins with the earliest gerrymandering (pronounced with a hard 'g'!) before our nation's founding with the rigging of American elections for partisan and political gain and the election-meddling of the c...
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a uniquely American problem
- The first gerrymander
- James Madison's Henrymander
- Revenge of the Whigs
- Honest Abe stacks the states
- Frankfurter's political thicket
- Echoes of slavery
- A blue tide in the Golden State
- The prisoner's dilemma
- Win one for the Whizzer
- The handshake deal
- Hollow hope
- Conclusion : if you can keep it.
