Seven Stories Press
Trade Paperback
From the publisher website:
Introduction by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
With complete comic book by Ted Rall
A close presidential election in November could well come down to contested states or even districts—an election decided by vote theft? It could happen this year.
Based on Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s investigative reporting for Rolling Stone and BBC television, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps might be the most important book published this year—one that could save the election.
Billionaires & Ballot Bandits names the filthy-rich sugar-daddies who are super-funding the Super-PACs of both parties—billionaires with nicknames like “The Ice Man,” “The Vulture” and, of course, The Brothers Koch. Told with Palast’s no-holds-barred, reporter-on-the-beat style, the facts as he lays them out are staggering. What emerges in B&BB is the never-before-told-story of the epic battle being fought behind the scenes between the old money banking sector that still supports Obama, and the new hedge fund billionaires like Paul Singer who not only support Romney but also are among his key economic advisors. B&BB exposes the previously unreported details on how operatives plan to use the hundreds of millions in Super-PAC money pouring into this election. We know the money is pouring in, but Palast shows us the convoluted ways the money will be used to suppress your vote.
The story of the billionaires and why they want to buy an election is matched with the nine ways they can steal the election. His story of the sophisticated new trickery will pick up on Palast’s giant New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
For more information go to www.ballotbandits.org or www.gregpalast.com.
REVIEWS
"A 48-page comic book, 'Tales from the Crypt of Democracy,' brilliantly illustrated by the award-winning artist Ted Rall, summarizes the bleak horrors detailed in Billionaires and Ballot Bandits. Palast reaches out to all of us with his revelations in a nutshell. Years from now we can turn to it and remember and marvel in our triumph that such atrocities once dominated the human landscape, here and throughout the world."--Op-Ed News
About Greg Palast and Ted Rall
GREG PALAST, a resident of New York City, is an investigative reporter for the BBC’s Newsnight and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, a book Michael Moore has called “courageous reporting.” He is also the author of The Joker's Wild: Dubya's Trick Deck with Robert Grossman.
Twice the winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, TED RALL is a political cartoonist, opinion columnist, graphic novelist and occasional war correspondent whose work has appeared in hundreds of publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Village Voice, and Los Angeles Times. He is also the author of The Anti-American Manifesto and The Book of Obama: From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt.
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