The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy

The Great Suppression

By Zachary Roth. Unearths the deep historical roots of an anti-egalitarian worldview, and introduces its modern-day proponents: officials pushing to make it harder to cast a ballot; lawyers looking to scrap limits on money in politics; libertarian scholars reclaiming judicial activism to roll back the New Deal; and corporate lobbyists working to ban local action on everything from the minimum wage to the environment. Shows how these efforts are hurting the most vulnerable Americans and preventing progress on pressing issues. Learn more.