The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It

Product Description “A gripping ground-level narrative…a marvel of reporting: tightly wound… but also panoramic.”—Washington Post“A lean, fast-paced and important account of the chaotic final weeks.”—New York TimesIn The Steal, veteran journalists Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague offer a week-by-week, state-by-state account of the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.In the sixty-four days between November 3 and January 6, President Donald Trump and his allies fought to reverse the outcome of the vote. Focusing on six states—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—Trump’s supporters claimed widespread voter fraud.Caught up in this effort were scores of activists, lawyers, judges, and state and local officials. Working with a team of researchers and reporters, Bowden and Teague uncover never-before-told accounts from the election officials fighting to do their jobs amid outlandish claims and threats to themselves, their colleagues, and their families. The Steal is an engaging, in-depth report on what happened during those crucial nine weeks and a portrait of the dedicated individuals who did their duty and stood firm against the unprecedented, sustained attack on our election system and ensured that every legal vote was counted and that the will of the people prevailed. Review Praise for The Steal“A gripping ground-level narrative of the weeks after Donald Trump lost the popular vote…The Steal is a marvel of reporting: tightly wound…but also panoramic — a kaleidoscope of stories about how officials and activists in pivotal states like Arizona and Georgia responded to Trump’s false claims of election fraud…The result is a narrative that mirrors the way elections are actually run in the United States: state by state, county by county, precinct by precinct.”—Washington Post“The unheralded and mostly unknown Republicans active in local politics who refused to go along with Trump’s lies—and played a key role in preserving American democracy—are the main subject of The Steal by the journalists Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague. At 230 pages of text, their book is a lean, fast-paced and important account of the chaotic final weeks of the Trump administration.”—New York Times“Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague have produced an indispensable and alarming ground-level record of how Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election played out in precincts and ballot-counting centers in key states...In their terrific new book...the authors have used a stethoscope to examine the minutia of the American election process. The result is a thrilling and suspenseful celebration of the survival of democracy...Bowden and Teague have performed a singular service.”—The Guardian“The strength of The Steal, Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague’s meticulous micro-narrative published on the one-year anniversary of the attacks, is that it zooms in through the forest and down to the grassroots, where a deluded assortment of self-styled patriots sought to subvert democracy in the name of saving it, and a brave band of state and local officials—most of them Trump-supporting Republicans, in fact—actually did save it.”—Air Mail“The Steal is a terrifying picture of the civil war that began on Election Day 2020. Here is the rancor, distrust, and deception that spun into the conspiracies and rabbit holes that Donald Trump has used to undermine truth, logic, and common sense. This is the behind-the-scenes world of the Big Lie. The Steal reads like an edge-of-your-seat political thriller—one without a happy ending.” —Michael Wolff, New York Times bestselling author of Landslide“The Steal is brilliant, an incredibly important document reported without bile or self-righteousness. A book every conservative should read.”—P. J. O’Rourke, New York Times bestselling author of How the Hell Did This Happen “It’s impossible to think of a better combination of writing and reporting talent to cover an historic assault on democracy t